Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...down in his "comfortable monastery," a 31st-floor apartment at Manhattan's Waldorf Towers, tallied up the work of another twelvemonth in retirement. The strenuous score: 30 speeches delivered, 55,952 letters answered, 22,952 miles traveled by car and air (including a trip to the Brussels' Fair), one hefty book (The Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson) published. Working ten to twelve hours daily seven days a week, backed up by four busy secretaries and a research assistant, Hoover even mixed business with a favorite recreation, trolling for the bait-shy Florida bonefish. "You have time between bites...
Russia's official style of architecture has long been stuck back in the Woolworth Building era. But the design of the U.S.S.R.'s hangar-like pavilion at the Brussels World's Fair, with its glass walls and trussed cantilevers, shows that Soviet architects are striving to catch up. If they want to take some tips from American building, they have an opportunity in a handsome, 82-panel photographic display of what is best and most typical in U.S. architecture today, on view this week at Moscow University. The first exhibit of U.S. building in the U.S.S.R. since...
...accompanying cartoon, may refer to persons or sayings. The program is somewhat complicated by such intramural banking as selling one's clues in midshow for a $1,000 consolation prize. The prizes are all highly consoling, from Bergdorf Goodman minks to tickets to the London production of My Fair Lady, not so much to see the show as to pick up one night's box office receipts (dollar estimate: $5,700). A super-prize is being mulled: an entire island off the coast of Scotland, complete with railroad station, stores, homes and a small hotel. After that-Bert...
Because the Sputnik-inspired sense of urgency has waned, the fair weather for the school bills has now turned into dead calm. There were indications last week that Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson has erased the Senate bill from his "must" list. Odds for what seemed so likely in the heat of January seemed no better than even in the coolness of August...
Married. Dan A. Kimball, 62, president of California's Aerojet-General Corp., onetime (1951-53) Secretary of the Navy; and Doris Fleeson, 57, Fair-Dealing political columnist for United Feature Syndicate; both for the second time; in Manhattan...