Word: chasing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Promising Dream. Haynes persuaded Maine's Senator Margaret Chase Smith to ask the First Lady if she would accept a promotional beaver coat from the Maine trappers. Mamie declined, but her refusal did not quite discourage Haynes. He explained: "Last March I had a dream. I could see Mrs. Eisenhower very clearly. I heard her say, 'I have reversed my decision. I will accept the coat...
What Jasper Haynes had not dreamed was that the presentation, arranged months ago, would fall in a week when gifts in government had Washington newsmen in a happy, hungry chase. The State Department had just kicked downstairs affable Victor Purse, 38, deputy chief of protocol, for accepting a sort of grandiose tip from Arabia's King Saud. The gift: a $3,000 Oldsmobile convertible, tendered to Purse's wife after Purse had seen Saud to the diplomatic door by flying back to Saudi Arabia with him after last February's state visit...
Keller's winning time in the annual event was 6:58, an excellent time for the fall season. Garmey trailed by two seconds, while boats stroked by Mark Hoffman and Kingsbury Chase battled for last place. Hoffman took third by only three feet...
...more people, weakens more economies and nags at more governments than any other problem except Communism itself. In the U.S. the cost of living, inching upward through twelve straight months of humming productivity, has reached a record high of 121 (the 1948-49 average: 100). In Australia the whirling chase of money after goods has doubled prices in ten years. India's prices have leaped so crazily (wholesale food prices were up 54% in two years) that the government has had to slash its vital five year plan and bombard all capitals with supplicating cries for investment cash. Brazilians...
Bethesda-Chevy Chase High, Bethesda