Word: facing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Needed: A Moses. The same bafflement was evident in the face and voice of Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson last week during his grim, two-day appearance before the Agriculture Committee to argue his case for lower price supports.*The arithmetic of Benson's battle fatigue: when he took over as Agriculture Secretary six years ago, he vowed to slash the cost of farm programs, which had averaged $1.5 billion a year in 1950-52; but in 1956-58, Agriculture Department outgo averaged $4.5 billion a year, and in the current fiscal year the total is estimated...
...diplomat who can claim to have bested the U.S.S.R.'s Premier Nikita Khrushchev in a face-to-face cold-war skirmish is Careerman James W. Riddleberger. Time: May 1955. Place: Belgrade, at a Yugoslav dinner party in honor of visiting Premier Khrushchev. Busy at his favorite party game of U.S. baiting, Khrushchev attacked the U.S.'s "positions of strength" policy. Retorted U.S. Ambassador Riddleberger: "I had some personal experience with Soviet efforts to act from a position of strength. I was in Berlin during the blockade." Khrushchev switched to deploring the sad plight of the workers...
...nickels into one of his own machines to drown out his screams, and thoroughly thumped him until he agreed to split his profits. The bulk of the beating was administered by a workmanlike hoodlum named Ernest "Kippy" Filocomo. Said Saul: "He began punching me in the head and face. When I pleaded for him to stop, they kept saying to each other, 'This fellow's an actor. This fellow's an actor.' It got to the point where I could hardly hold my head...
Last week a U.S. embassy official added up the results and made a wry face. "We don't have a damn thing to show for it," he said. "We're wasting money." Up in the clouds of La Paz (alt. 11,900 ft.), inside the drab, grey palace where he is guarded constantly by a manned machine gun, Hernan Siles Zuazo. 44, Bolivia's President, admitted: "The situation is critical and explosive...
Surprising Fact. So far, all but two of the patients treated have lost most of their pain. The exceptions: one with lung cancer, one with "phantom limb" pain after an arm amputation. Best results have been in cancers of the face and neck. The surgeons leave the electrodes in place so that the patients can go home and lead drug-free, lives, as near normal as their disease will permit. They can return for treatment to destroy a further part of the thalamus if pain recurs...