Word: assets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Vice President Nixon, out campaigning in San Francisco, flatly disagreed. His points: 1) U.S. foreign policy is a proper topic for U.S. debate, and 2) the Eisenhower-Dulles record is the G.O.P.'s great asset and great hope to turn back the Democratic tide. Nixon's argument: "A policy of firmness when dealing with the Communists is a peace policy. A policy of weakness is a war policy. This Administration has kept the peace without surrender of principle or territory...
...afford to neglect Ingham and Livingston, and already he has heard complaints that he has not been seeing enough of his farm friends. To handle that problem, he scheduled a tour through the district's farming areas this week with Ezra Benson, whom Chamberlain deems a decided political asset...
...district, even while attending to the daily legislative and committee work required of the conscientious Congressman, have kept him away from his wife, Charlotte, and their three children (Ellen, 12; Christine, 6; and Charles Jr., 4) more than he likes. But here again Chamberlain has a fine political asset: a wife who understands. Says Charlotte Chamberlain: "Somehow this extraordinary way of living-two homes, two worlds-comes to be taken in stride. The only time I realize that we aren't quite as stable as other people is when I am in a group of people, and somebody says...
...mind losing money." A good tax base is exactly what Stevens has-real estate operations ranging all the way from buying the Empire State Building in 1951 (he resold it in 1954) to subleasing a vast section of downtown Seattle. But Stevens also has another, special asset: he knows how to put the touch on other people. He raises vast sums as quickly as he can raise a telephone. Says Playwright Marc (Green Pastures) Connelly: "Stevens is a stage-struck shrewdie who brings nothing to the theater but a knowledge of real estate. The only thing...
...sleep-loving Ferhat Abbas, who likes to get to bed before 9 every night, already wonders how he will hold his head up at evening functions if he ever becomes head of a genuine Algerian state. Slow as he had been to join the rebellion, Abbas still possessed an asset of incalculable value to the F.L.N.-the most respected name in Algerian politics. Three weeks ago, when the rebels proclaimed formation of a government in exile, everyone agreed that "Papa" Abbas was the logical choice for Premier...