Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Capitol Hill, Nixon is a presidential agent, not a congressional leader. His fellow Californian, William Knowland, the Senate Majority leader, has immediate access to the President when he wants it, so Nixon would never dream of telling Knowland, "This is what the President wants." Knowland must decide what bills the Senate will take up; Nixon can only advise the President on what to ask for. Knowland must worry about every Administration program; Nixon leaves many of them to White House liaison men. Another difference: Knowland may, on occasion, disagree publicly with the President; Nixon submerges his views if they conflict...
Died. Oscar Straus, 83, famed Viennese composer (no kin to Waltz King Johann Strauss or Bavarian Composer Richard Strauss) who wrote some 50 sparkling operettas (The Chocolate Soldier, Waltz Dream); of a heart ailment; in Bad Ischl, Austria...
...larger sense, the new policy is an attempt to set back a force which cannot be stopped. In the same way that segregation in American schools is doomed, the progress of education and the enlightenment it brings makes its constant advance a necessity. Soothing as it is, Malan's dream of the happy savage will not cure his internal disorders; the Union has offered the natives real education too long to force them to accept mere subsistence knowledge from their schools...
...ultramodern operating setup was a dream come true, not only for Harvard-trained Dr. Taran, but for Mother Mary of Kevelaer and the 46 sisters of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary who run the Long Island hospital-sanatorium. When it was founded in 1937, in a rambling mansion and stables given to the nuns by Shipowner Carlos Munson (a Quaker), it was a home for child victims of heart disease, and little more...
...strength of that success, the Atomic Energy Commission selected Westinghouse to build a "fullscale power reactor" capable of producing a minimum of 60,000 kw. of electrical energy for industrial use. Thus atomic power for industry, until 1953 merely a scientist's dream, had actually started. Onetime Investment Banker Lewis Strauss, new chairman of AEC, and his fellow commissioners agree that the best way to make atomic power plants an everyday reality is to end the Government monopoly and let private industry do more...