Word: dissimilarity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eggheads, Arise!" From those dissimilar starts, Adlai Stevenson and Estes Kefauver last week began their duel in the sunshine-the preferential primary fight for California's 68 votes at the Democratic National Convention. At the beginning it did not seem much of a fight. Almost all of the party leaders and Democratic money in California are pledged for Stevenson. Kefauver's supporters could only resort to an appeal over the heads of the leaders; they had to cancel a scheduled television show at week's end because they did not have enough money...
Gunter himself played a large part in the student government of the University, but he considers this dissimilar to U.S. extra-curricular activities. "The main purpose is practical," he states in describing his duties as admissions official and student-faculty representative. In the first of these student-elected posts, Gunter, along with one professor decided on all admissions to his department of study. The next year, as representative for all Berlin's economics students, he joined with regular faculty members in administering the department...
...Dwight Eisenhower's bedroom is a painting of a Chinese puzzle by Dodge's son, Joseph Jeffers Dodge, curator of the Hyde collection of art at Glens Falls, N.Y. The painting, a gift from Banker Dodge to Ike, represents the friendship between two men of vastly dissimilar backgrounds and personalities. It may also remind the President that Dodge will need all the help he can get in solving one of Washington's most difficult puzzles: how to make a foreign economic policy that is both exciting and practical, one that will imbue the free world with...
...precarious cold-war no man's land boasts no D'Artagnan, but it has its own loose version of the Three Musketeers, a dissimilar threesome who feel a need to share their lonesomeness. Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito, India's Jawaharlal Nehru and Burma's Premier U Nu have, as one leading Yugoslav diplomat insists, "a similarity of outlook on present international developments...
...actually old-style U.S. diplomacy, would avoid trying to bunch dissimilar allies. Of some, it would ask little and expect little; with others, it would go as far as necessity, opportunity and prudence suggest...