Word: box
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...oldest section of Washington, to the newer but equally plush Embassy Row on Massachusetts Avenue. The grounds around the main building, which houses the library, museum, and study rooms, are covered with the most beautiful formal gardens in Washington. Not an American Versailles, Dumbarton Oaks, with its fountains, box hedges, and old shade trees, does manage to retain an aristocratic aura in a very democratic city. Right next to the house is a large, shaded swimming pool, theoretically restricted to Dumbarton Oaks personnel, but practically, open to midnight raids by over-heated Georgetown residents...
...must trade to live, and that U.S. stick-in-the-mud policies on tariff cuts had given them little choice. But when the talk turned to the observation that it was time for the U.S. to "reappraise" its basic nonrecognition of Red China, the answer was flatly no (see box). For its part, said the State Department, "the U.S. contemplates no change in its policy of total embargo on trade with Communist China...
...box-toed black shoes barely touching the floor as he perched on his chair, Joe Martin argued back. The political reality, said Martin, was that House Republicans simply would not go much above $300 million in restorations. Finally-and unhappily-Ike gave in. "All right," he said. "All right, Joe. You are my field marshal in this thing. If you think $300 million or so is the best...
...helped found in 1929), Humphrey will see the 1958 budget through Congress. But many an Eisenhower Republican breathed a sigh of relief when the White House announced, well in advance of the fact, that Humphrey's successor will be former Deputy Defense Secretary Robert B. Anderson (see box), who could well become the fiscal symbol of the second Eisenhower Administration...
...Colombes stadium outside Paris, President René Coty watched Toulouse beat Angers for the soccer championship of France. Just behind him in the presidential box, conspicuous in his red tarboosh and thick glasses, sat France's favorite Algerian, Ali Chekkal, 60-year-old lawyer and onetime vice president of the Algerian Assembly. When the French were summoned before the bar of the U.N. Assembly last February to defend their Algerian policies, they took along Ali Chekkal as a living, breathing testimonial to France's real popularity with Algeria's Moslems...