Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...likely to suffer a second attack. The President would be able to assume a much heavier work load starting around Jan. 9, after a two-week trip to the South for an easy return to normal exercise. The big political question of whether Dwight Eisenhower would be fit enough to seek a second term, Dr. White implied, could be answered in mid-February, after his next and probably final examination. "He was out of danger from this last attack within a few weeks," White concluded. The report...
...filled his 1956 legislative package, Benson was trying to fit in an item to cover every situation. As of last week he favored a ceiling on the amount of Government support any farmer can get, a proposal that had a remarkable pair of recommendations from the left-of-center Farmers Union and U.S. Secretary of the Treasury George Humphrey. The Farmers Union sees it as a way to hold down the amount of U.S. funds going to big farmers, and George Humphrey sees it as a sensible protection for the Treasury...
...everything in the world that a prince could desire: a beautiful domain, happy subjects, a private zoo, a 200-room palace, a world-famed gambling casino, a 140-ft. yacht, lots of money. If Monaco, his principality, was one of the smallest independent states in the world (it would fit neatly in the middle of New York's La Guardia Airport), there were other compensations. For example, the prince had plenty of titles (16) and a Croix de guerre for his wartime service in the French army. Still, something was lacking: the prince had no wife. Last week...
...been their leader for a record 20 years. Attlee had intended to linger in power until early next year, but on a recent speaking tour of Scotland, renewed and pointed hints had got under his skin, and he had made his sudden decision almost in a fit of pique. The tributes over, Attlee rose, snapped: "Well, thank you. Thank you very much," and walked straight out of the room...
Deperonizatlon. "To recover stolen wealth," a government decree confiscated the property of 263 persons and 68 corporations alleged to have grown fat under Peron. A National Wealth Recovery Board was empowered to administer the seized property as it saw fit. Most conspicuous on the list, except for Peron himself* and his late wife Eva, was Tycoon Jorge Antonio, 38, who rose in the last decade from a hospital orderly to the possessor of a fortune reported to total $215 million (rolled up in Mercedes-Benz cars, Capehart radios and phonographs, grains, publishing, radio...