Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soilers, Independent Democrats, conscience Whigs, Barnburners, Soft Hunkers, teetotalers, vegetarians and transcendentalists." But in 1956, Republicans were united in knowing whom and what they wanted. Dwight Eisenhower could have brought on a "wide open" presidential nomination only by his own irrevocable withdrawal. And for months Ike had tried to avoid the appearance of dictation by withholding his all-out endorsement of Nixon. The fact: only by an unvarnished turndown of Nixon-in itself a denial of a "wide open" convention-could the President have changed the final results...
...attends weekly services, teaches a ninth-grade Sunday-school class, has a picture of Jesus on his office wall. He worries lest his religious zeal be taken for political haymaking, guards against that possibility by extreme measures; e.g., he slips out of a service during the benediction to avoid church-step handshaking, insists that he be known to his Sunday-school class as Mr. (not Governor) Langlie. He neither smokes nor drinks, but is undisturbed if others do. In his eyes the ultimate evil is immorality, especially in politics. Says a longtime friend: "If there is an unavoidable choice...
...Correspondent." Outraged by these disorders, Sheik Sulman not only refused to fire Belgrave but exiled the reformist leader, Abdul Rahman Bakir−who promptly took refuge in Nasser's Cairo. The British Foreign Office, however, disturbed by Egypt's growing influence in Bahrein and anxious to avoid another blow to British prestige like Jordan's unseemly ouster of Lieut. General John Bagot Glubb (TIME, March 12), pressured Belgrave to get out while the getting was good. Last week, in a brief dispatch from "our own correspondent in Bahrein," the London Times reported that "the Sheik of Bahrein...
Often, his efforts to avoid unpleasantness take the form of hypochondria-as he puts it, "I'm a doctor freak." Although his doctor says he is an unusually healthy specimen, Duke tends to mistrust his ability to stay well; if his pulse rate seems slow to him in Las Vegas, it means a call to New York, for his doctor to take the next plane out. He will not tolerate air conditioning-"You know, I'm delicate. My hair gets wet, the air conditioning hits it, and I get a sharp pain right down the middle...
...major papers beefed up their staffs (and more brass went along for the show). Some staffs, like the 100-man word-and-picture teams assigned by the Associated Press and the United Press, went on the job with intricate battle orders and (for photographers and messengers) identifying armbands to avoid confusion. As usual, the biggest staff representing a single daily was assigned by the New York Times,* whose 19 men no doubt would file more words than any other newspaper's corps...