Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kennedy was set to thinking hard when Hubert Humphrey's wife Muriel remarked at a cocktail party: "If Stu Symington is the competition for President, then it's a wide-open race." Kennedy has been campaigning ever since. He has been in every state of the Union except Tennessee, has come to know and be known by some 1,500 professional Democrats who generally go to conventions. During the 1958 campaign alone he traveled 25,000 miles in 19 states. Between times he managed to cover Massachusetts like a quilt, post volunteer "secretaries" in more than...
Indeed, in the wild scramble for the precious Democratic nomination in 1960, The Man Who could be almost anybody except Dick Nixon. And as the days pass and the tension grows, the candidates themselves will be moving to the front and hurling themselves into active battle. When that happens, the U.S. voter is in for a wonderfully exciting time-if his eardrums hold out. And at that delirious moment when the hush falls on Convention Hall, and Sam Rayburn introduces the NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, the Democrats can only hope that someone has survived to come...
...chaplain with the Belgian resistance. Then, one day in 1949. he heard a lecture by a U.S. UNRRA official describing the plight of Europe's D.P.s. "It was such heartbreak," recalls Georges Pire, "such despair that it suddenly seemed to me that there was nothing I could do-except do everything I could to remedy all that...
...Calendar. Last week the village of Kukang was only a memory. Nothing was left of it except the public well. Next to the well stood the ruins of the ancient temple that served Kukang's 180 families. In the rubble of shattered homes, the villagers had found 18 of their number, dead or maimed. Others have died since-one family of six in its bunker-the hapless civilian victims of the grotesque Red China assault that takes place every other...
Last week the geisha trade suffered yet another blow. With the government beginning to look into the once-secret and tax-exempt expense accounts that businessmen used for geisha parties, 20 of Japan's leading firms issued an ultimatum to their employees: no more parties, except for gullible foreigners. "Japan," says one oldtime patron of the Sumida houses, "is the land of the vanishing geisha. In the end they will wind up as purely tourist attractions-like the Navajo Indians." The plain fact is that the stylized coquetry of the classic geisha is no longer fashionable. "Frankly," said...