Word: friend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sniffles not quite defeated even after eight days at the La Quinta, Calif, desert home of his friend George Allen, the President of the U.S. clearly hated to leave. Invited back to California by Democratic Governor Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown, Dwight Eisenhower thought of the duties that face him for the rest of his term of office, said almost wistfully: "Maybe I will, after 15 months." But Ike had to get back to Washington. There was plenty...
...there were also some pleasant things coming before the President on his return to Washington. Although the U.S. remained discreetly silent about its preferences in the British elections, the President could hardly have been less than delighted at the sweeping victory of his old friend Harold Macmillan (see FOREIGN NEWS). And perhaps the most satisfying event of the week was a visit from another friend of the U.S., Mexico's President López Mateos (see HEMISPHERE). Last year, after returning from his tempestuous visit to Latin America, Vice President Nixon recommended that the U.S. distinguish more clearly among...
...fight began last March, when United Artists mailed 2,268 postcard reproductions of the painting to editors, film and record distributors as a promotion stunt for a film about Goya and his great and good friend, the Duchess of Alba, supposedly the model for The Maja. The Post Office took one look, pronounced them obscene and seized them...
...could not quit. For more than six years he averaged a raid a week, stealing in all some 400 cattle, worth $90,000. Even after giving Mischker his cut, Roden had enough left over to finance his roulette losses and to set up a beauty parlor for his girl friend, Widow Irmgard Wakulenko...
...lining regime by electing a goat named Fragrant to the city council. Last week São Paulo (pop. 3,650,000), Brazil's biggest city, was counting the votes after an election for city council, and once more the voters had turned to a four-legged friend. Top vote-getter (100,000) among 540 candidates for the 45-seat council: a five-year-old female rhinoceros named Cacareco (meaning rubbish), resident of the São Paulo zoo, whose only graft is 70 Ibs. of vegetables each day. Said one Paulista voter: "Better to elect a rhino than...