Word: downed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Out of the big aircraft's forward hatch stepped Dwight Eisenhower, wearing a grey topcoat and a grey felt hat. The weather omens were inauspicious as he stepped lightly down the ramp to begin his historic 19-day tour of eleven nations. But with his evident ease and friendship...
Minutes before taking off on his 22,370-mile global mission, President Eisenhower laid down before a TV audience of 38 million Americans a statement of national -and personal-purpose in the world to rank with his Guildhall speech in London in June 1945, Excerpts:
The contrast between Secretary Gates and outgoing Secretary McElroy could hardly be greater. McElroy (who goes back this week, with no regrets, to a new Procter & Gamble job as board chairman at upwards of $285,000) is an attractive, extraverted salesman-impatient with details or lengthy briefings, a man who...
"Ole Earl" Long, three-time Louisiana Governor and heir to the political dynasty founded by Brother Huey, last week slid toward oblivion as the reigning force in Louisiana politics. Barred by law from succeeding himself and harried by doctors as he was chased in and out of mental hospitals (TIME...
To make the defeat more galling, Louisiana picked two of Long's bitterest enemies to fight it out in the runoff. High man of the eleven candidates scrambling for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination: de-Lesseps Story Morrison, 47, veteran reform Mayor of New Orleans (four four-year terms), clobbered...