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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...White House, Nixon stepped into a news conference in Presidential News Secretary James Hagerty's office. Clearly and carefully, Nixon spelled out the operation of government during Ike's illness. What was his personal part? Said Nixon: "My role at the present time, I think, is best described by my title. I am the Vice President." Said a newsman: "Now I realize this may be a somewhat embarrassing question to put to you ..." Nixon broke in: "No questions are embarrassing." Continued the reporter: "Do you have any reason to believe that the President may be considering resigning?" Replied...
...with the unhappy fact that his host had become ill right after bidding him welcome. When the President two days later invited the King to his bedroom for an informal visit, Mohammed spent a quiet ten minutes with Ike, told him: "We say in Morocco that one's best friend is his doctor. So will you please consider me as a doctor...
...airport near Dallas in a funeral director's Cadillac limousine (Dallas, unaccountably, could not produce a proper car from any other source), toured a General Motors plant in nearby Arlington. He took in a fashion show at Neiman-Marcus' department store, and best of all, got a good taste of cowboy life at the famed King Ranch, where the land and the vast expanses seemed more like home than granite-blocked Washington or gleaming Dallas. There, in five-gallon hat and astride a quarter horse, he got a close look at the King Ranch's own Santa...
...these arrangements, firm and tentative, would at best net India $700 million. But to pay for the imported steel and equipment needed to complete even the hard core of the plan, India must have still another $500 million to $600 million in foreign aid within the next 18 months. Nehru makes no secret of the fact that he is looking to the U.S. to fill this...
...Plotters. Actually, the top leadership of the running rebellion is so prosperous, conservative and respectable that amused Habaneros are calling it "the best-dressed revolution in history." Of the chief rebel plotters outside the Sierra, four are lawyers, three are physicians, two are financiers, one a millowner. Deftly combining rebellion with business-as-usual, each earns more than $20,000 a year. The rebels conspire behind brocade curtains in air-conditioned homes and offices. Wrote TIME'S Reporter Sam Halper after sitting in on one such meeting last week: "Silent servants opened the doors, poured the drinks and arranged...