Word: careful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...goodbye to Mrs. V. Beaumont Allen, Manhattan philanthropist, who donated $3,000,000 for Lincoln Center's Repertory Theater, and who, like the President, had suffered a coronary attack. Nobody heard exactly what Ike told her, but apparently it had something to do with the kind of medical care he got during his illness. A moment later she dashed over to the President's physician, Major General Howard Snyder, 78, and bussed him heartily. Shouted Ike gaily: "Tell her I'm a Cupid...
...took the trouble to study the Western position at Geneva would find it an honest attempt to reach agreement. That mysterious, ephemeral and debatable quality, the diplomatic initiative, was the West's once more. Khrushchev could talk resoundingly of seeking peaceful agreement - but how much did he really care...
Frondizi's only dependable ally is the armed forces, and he takes care to cultivate them. Lieut. General Héctor Solanas Pacheco, the War Minister, operates as the army's man in the Cabinet, and is rated as its most important member. Frondizi says he needs two years before the benefits of his reforms abate his unpopularity. He counts on force to secure those two years...
...Here is a story of a strange world and some troubled people," the dust jacket proclaims, "written by a young man who knows them at first hand." But how does Zane know them? Does he care? Does he approve? Does he condemn? Indeed, for the reader, does it matter? Wyeth and Steiner ultimately appear trivial and absurd. A child, at least, grows up; but the down-and-outs in Easy Living are adults gone to seed. They are grown men and women romping in diapers, shouting to attract our attention, aware of our criticism, scornful of our values, yet forever...
Insurance for maternity cases may be dropped, Dr. Farnsworth noted, and the fees usually applied for this service could then be used for the "catastrophic insurance. "We are working to revise the entire insurance structure, possibly getting another plan for maternity care, and, with the saved fees, establishing the prolonged-illness insurance," he commented...