Word: central
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...during the meeting in the Cabinet room, an aide handed the President a note saying that Dulles had arrived and was waiting in the President's office. The President adjourned the meeting and walked back to his office with Vice President Richard Nixon, Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson, Central Intelligence Agency Director Allen Dulles, Deputy Secretary of Defense Donald Quarles, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Nathan Twining, and a squad of other experts...
Died. Marion Hilliard, M.D., 56, Canadian gynecologist whose thoughtful essays on the act and fact of love won transcontinental gratitude; of cancer; in Toronto. With "a happy bedroom" the central aim of her medical philosophy, Spinster Hilliard published many articles in Chatelaine, collected them in one best-selling volume (A Woman Doctor Looks at Love and Life...
...central character, played by John Colicos, is King Leontes, who unjustly believes himself cuckolded and proceeds to wreak his jealousy on everyone around, even defying the oracle of Delphi. Of Shakespeare's three great studies of jealousy--Leontes, Othello, and Ford--this is the most realistic. Leontes is a neurotic with high blood pressure and fits of paranoia. Whereas Othello's jealousy builds up in a steady crescendo, Leontes' bursts out in white heat at the outset and, feeding on itself, stays at the same level...
Acting as the eyes and ears of his brother Dwight, Johns Hopkins University President Milton Eisenhower flew south from Washington last week for a fact-finding and good-will swing through six nations of Central America. The trip, originally scheduled for June 15, was postponed lest Milton meet a backwash of the violence that greeted Vice President Nixon in Lima and Caracas...
...Panama, Milton delivered the welcome news that a joint U.S. House-Senate committee had just agreed to end the controversial double standard under which U.S. and Panamanian Canal employees are paid according to separate wage scales. His No. 1 mission, however, is asking questions and getting answers about Central America's economic problems, and he took along key men to help him with the job. With him were Roy Rubottom, Assistant Secretary of State for inter-American Affairs; Tom B. Coughran, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury; Export-Import Bank President Samuel C. Waugh; and Development Loan Fund Manager Dempster...