Word: friendly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dominated by the Brown-following San Diego County Democratic Committee. Indeed, it was not until he got to Los Angeles that Symington was able to do any real digging out of reach of the watchful Brown followers. There, at a cocktail party at the home of his old, close friend, Oilman Edwin Pauley. Symington moved easily among guests ranging from Frank Sinatra to Hotelman Conrad Hilton. But he also spent a long while in private, animated conversation with Host Pauley, whose wealth and whose influence as Harry Truman's top West Coast follower are Symington's best hopes...
Last February Neuberger returned to the Senate after a gallant, five-month struggle with cancer (TIME, Feb. 16). True to the unpredictable Morse code, Neuberger's friend-turned-enemy offered "a very warm welcome and assurance of our sincere pleasure over the fact that my colleague has returned...
Smarting under this rebuff, Adenauer proclaimed his intention to run for the presidency himself, and all Germany applauded his solution. Adenauer thought that the ceremonial job might be converted into a post as prestigious as that occupied in France by his friend Charles de Gaulle, but after prolonged study of the West German constitution his lawyers said no. All the while, inside the Christian Democratic Party, a bitter fight was developing over who should succeed Adenauer as chancellor. The old man himself favored Finance Minister Franz Etzel, a quiet corporation lawyer who could be counted upon to accept tutelage...
When lectures came on Saturdays-during which Orthodox Jews are forbidden to work, ride in a vehicle or talk on the phone-Abe would have a friend put a sheet of carbon paper under his lecture notes and hope he remembered to use a ballpoint pen. Sabbath restrictions begin on Friday night, just before sundown, and on occasional Fridays only a lucky break in the traffic has saved him from having to abandon his 1952 De Soto and walk the rest of the way home. On Saturdays Abe was not on duty, but sometimes, to follow...
...relationships of the university years gradually opened Simone's eyes to herself. There was her cousin Jacques in whom she saw only a romantic image, although he actually carried on a series of sordid liaisons, finally married for money and died of alcoholism at 46. There was her friend Zaza who overtaxed herself trying to be Simone's fellow freedom fighter against parental cant; when she died of meningitis, "I believed that I had paid for my own freedom with her death." And then there was Stépha. pert. Polish and feminine, who taught Simone to look...