Word: findings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pooling & Perking. Dulles hoped that the stay at Jupiter Island in the warm Florida sunshine, with the cold war left behind him, would help him recover from effects of the heavy radiation treatment at Walter Reed, would also give doctors a chance to find out whether the radiation treatment had arrested the spread of his cancer. After he found the answers, he would decide whether to 1) carry on as Secretary of State, 2) resign as Secretary but carry on in perhaps the high-level, influential capacity of presidential adviser on foreign affairs, or 3) resign and retire. Last week...
Lakeland, Fla. (pop. 40,500) is like many U.S. cities that have sizable (9,000) Negro populations: white neighborhoods surround the Negro communities, resist attempts of Negroes to find more room for homes. Last week both Negroes and whites in Lakeland were working out a solution to the "white collar" that will give the Negroes new room to grow. Twenty-seven white families, all home owners in the small northside subdivision of Pinehurst Courts, agreed to sell or rent their homes to Negroes...
...chalked up the good news on their sport scoreboards, and the government radio blared the achievement: "The fate of Amirouche is the fate of all rebel leaders." But French fighting men were not so optimistic. Said famed Paratroop Major General Jacques Massu: "Amirouche is dead, but they'll find another...
...selection is better in all ways," he explained. "The boys are generally taller and stronger, too. The 6-ft. 4-in. and 6-ft. 5-in. guys in the middle of the shell are common now. In fact, it's getting harder all the time to find little coxswains...
...What do you hope to achieve with such colossal stupidity?" his boss roars, and Hope meekly replies: "I wanted to become your assistant." Instead, he is ordered to head west, find Jesse James and keep him alive at all costs. "B-b-but." Hope stammers, "I'm liable to get killed." To which the boss bellows a retort that is just as funny now as it was when Aristophanes was scratching the wax: "Stop trying to cheer...