Word: friendly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hosted a dinner honoring the Justices of the Supreme. Court. Justice Felix Frankfurter, who recently suffered a heart ailment, was absent, and Chief Justice Earl Warren, down with a virus, sent his regrets. Added upsets: at dinner, Mrs. Howard Tinney, a Newport, R.I. friend of the Eisenhowers, left the table with a toothache; Mrs. Howard Simpson, wife of the president of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, became ill, was later described as having "rapid action of the heart''; Mrs. Earl Warren tripped on the White House front steps, quipped: "It's obvious I need my husband...
...should be converted to 75-25, but this matter should be the object of serious studies by technicians." He will doubtless renew-with less disruptive speed-his own wars on slums, illiteracy, sickness, agricultural backwardness. In the U.N. and elsewhere, the U.S. can count Venezuela under Betancourt as a friend...
Commuter's Friend...
...seemed as if the only friend the hapless suburban commuter had last week was a bold, brainy lawyer who started in the railroad business a mere four years ago. The man: Ben Walter Heineman, 44, chairman of the 9,096-mile Chicago & North Western Railway, which inaugurated a new commuter plan that could well,serve as a guide to troubled roads across the U.S. They sorely needed help. Last week the Lehigh Valley Railroad moaned that it was going broke from its $4,000-$5,000,000-a-year passenger deficit in commuter-heavy New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania...
...factions, friend and foe, are suffused by Pasternak with a profound pity, and their death is mourned. In one of the more fascinating passages, he introduces a village witch in Siberia who, even in the dawn of scientific socialism, clings to her visions. She prophesies: "Take your red banner. You think it's a flag, isn't that what you think? Well, it isn't a flag. It's the purple kerchief of the death woman...