Word: friendly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hoffa's 1948-56 income tax returns, the committee found $60.322 reported under such vague headings as "miscellaneous income" and "wagering." He explained that his friend Bert Brennan placed racetrack bets for him and always showed a yearly profit. Invited by the committee to explain his system, Brennan took the Fifth Amendment...
...accepted Butler's terms. Main item of interest in the settlement: many Democrats thought that Butler and Ziffren, both longtime, diehard Stevenson supporters, had nipped a plan to pack the galleries for Stu Symington or Texas' Senator Lyndon Johnson, both acceptable to Ed Pauley's good friend, Harry Truman...
...over Iraq had brought them together: Nasser's fear of an Iraq that challenged his all-Arab pretensions, Hussein's distaste for the Iraqi regime that came to power by killing his King-cousin. In a move calculated to enhance Nasser's claim to be the friend of all Arab nations and to bolster Hussein on his precarious throne, the colonel and the King made up, agreed to try to be friends as they once were (see cut), arranged to exchange ambassadors again next month...
...Duvalier is a man with many real troubles. He is beset at home by an opposition that plots and throws bombs constantly; he is beset east and west by the Dominican Republic and Cuba, which keep trying to strike at each other through Haiti. But he has one powerful friend, the U.S., which sent him 50 marines to train his army and has had destroyers around the Windward Passage to discourage seaborne invasion. Last week one of Duvalier's tactical companies crept up on the 30-man invasion force that slipped in from Cuba a fortnight ago (TIME...
Epstein studied at Manhattan's Art Students League, made a little money as an illustrator. In his early 203 he invaded Paris, became a close friend of Sculptor Constantin Brancusi. Together they "discovered" and fell under the spell of African carving. Later, Epstein staked out elegant old London as his chosen battleground, began alternately shocking and dazzling the British with hugely energetic, part sentimental and part brutal monuments. Epstein's bull-bold, pink alabaster Adam made strong men blush, girls giggle, and dowagers howl for blood. "I saw my subject," Epstein rumblingly explained, mankind." "as His the contorted...