Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your article on Nelson Rockefeller [Oct. 6] prompts this letter. When I was a little girl in Cleveland, my mother was calling on Grandpa John D.'s neighbor and, over the back fence, told John D. that my birthday was the same day as his, July 8. With no hesitation, he reached in his pocket and handed my mother the enclosed dime. I now want to return it to Grandson Nelson for his campaign fund, and wish him luck and success...
...Jungle. In Thomasville, N.C., Gene Thomas Liverett, charged with boring a hole in the back of a parking meter, got a suspended sentence on condition that he not be found within 5 ft. of a parking meter for the next year...
...that the U.S. economy is snapping back from the recession, the talk - and the worry - about inflation has reached alarming proportions. What do the economic facts say about the chances of widespread price hikes in the next year? See BUSINESS ESSAY, Inflation Fears...
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...
Monday. Vice President Nixon, then in Chicago, cut back at the Democrats: "In a nutshell, the Acheson foreign policy resulted in war and the Eisenhower-Dulles policy resulted in peace. I challenge every Democratic candidate for the House and Senate to state unequivocally whether he favors a continuation of the Eisenhower foreign policy . . . military strength and diplomatic firmness . . . or a return to the Acheson policy . . . retreat and appeasement...