Word: florida
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from the unilateral "assumptions" that Israel had depended upon in agreeing to withdraw from Gaza. Premier Ben-Gurion gravely faced the Knesset and warned that Israel's troops might soon have to march again. Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Abba Eban was called away from a well-earned Florida vacation to present to Acting State Secretary Christian Herter a Ben-Gurion message describing the situation as extremely critical...
Filling a vacancy on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals (Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas and Canal Zone), President Eisenhower last week tapped a New Orleans corporation lawyer whose facility at law helped Ike clinch the 1952 Republican nomination. To the Senate for confirmation he sent the name of John Minor Wisdom, 51, Louisiana's Republican national committeeman. A lifetime Republican but no politician until 1951, Lawyer Wisdom (specialty: antitrust legislation) recruited Louisiana Republicans and Democrats alike for Ike, saw a delegation packed with Taft supporters picked for the convention. Carrying his battle to Chicago, Wisdom argued credentials...
...Unbothered by blustery Florida weather, California's Barbara Romack, 24, relaxed and thought about her approaching marriage to Golf Pro Buddy Porter. She also played the best golf of her career, beat Florida's Ann Middlemas, 16, by an easy 5-and-4 in the Florida East Coast women's amateur at St. Augustine...
Much in Demand. Recently Roberta has been arranging her tours so that she is never away from home more than six weeks at a time-her husband Don, now a semi-invalid, looks out for the boys and answers all of Roberta's correspondence from their Florida home. She is working hard because, she says, "I'd like to pay off the debts and get something put aside." Roberta proved such a hit with women viewers when she appeared recently on Ed Murrow's Person to Person that there is talk of signing her for a daily...
...ordinarily cannot get long-term loans through normal bank channels. "What we're looking for," says one Prudential executive, "is the nice little company making a nice little product in Bucyrus, Ohio." The Pru has found plenty of them. Among the loans: $200,000 to help reforest a Florida tree farm, $750,000 to a Nashville religious-book company, $54,000 to Kansas City's Papec Machine Co., makers of agricultural appliances, another $120,000 to six El Dorado (Ark.) doctors who convinced the Pru that their town needed a medical center...