Word: attackers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House living quarters one night last week, the President answered a phone call from an aide in the executive wing. The message: Ike's ailing eldest brother Arthur, 71, who retired from the banking and grain-financing business in 1956, had just collapsed and died of a heart attack in his home in Kansas City, Kans. Moments later, the President's youngest brother* Milton president of Johns Hopkins University, phoned from Baltimore with the same news...
...pact than by joining. The Baghdad Pact commits its members only to "cooperate for their security and defense." Under the Eisenhower Doctrine, Dulles pointed out, the U.S. is pledged to send its armed forces, on request, to the aid of any Middle East nation or group of nations under attack by any country controlled by international Communism. Said Dulles: "The Baghdad Pact group of countries can be confident that mobile power of great force would, as needed, be brought to bear against any Communist aggressor." By the five pact members, this was taken to mean instant support from Sixth Fleet...
Died. Ataulfo Argenta, 44, Spam's top conductor, who got into hot water (in 1954) for deploring his country's musical isolation under Dictator Franco ("There is only one alternative: renovation or death"), later recanted to save his job; of a heart attack; in Madrid...
Died. Philip Danforth Armour, 64, onetime first vice president (and grandson of the founder) of Chicago's meat-packing Armour & Co., who resigned (in 1931) in a huff after he failed to become its president; of a heart attack; in his Palm Beach, Fla. home...
...stronger than Moultrie. He urged that it be garrisoned-in a message to the War Department that is as meaningful to 1958 as to 1860: "Nothing will be better calculated to prevent bloodshed than our being found in such an attitude that it would be madness and folly to attack...