Word: gaed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ASHTON H. GARY LaGrange, Ga...
...forehead deeply furrowed, his mood somber as he alighted from an Air Force Constellation at Washington National Airport in a cold and soaking rain. "This is some weather," he growled to his military and naval aides, hankering back to the vacation he had just cut short in sunny Thomasville, Ga. As he sped off downtown to the White House, Ike huddled down into his tan raincoat, reached often into his left coat pocket for a handkerchief, breaking out every now and then into a hacking cough...
During his first year at Phillips Exeter Academy, there were times when Nathaniel LaMar of Atlanta, Ga. thought he would never make it. The son of a widowed schoolteacher, he had gone to a Negro elementary school that left him unprepared for the stiff competition at Exeter. Had it not been for an organization called the National Scholarship Service and Fund for Negro Students, he would never have bothered to apply for Exeter at all. But young LaMar gradually found his bearings. Eventually he i) was elected senior class poet at Exeter, 2) graduated summa cum laude from Harvard...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27--Sen. Russell (D-Ga.), making a new effort to limit the scope of President Eisenhower's Middle East program, said today Congress was being asked to buy "a pig in the poke...
...when the Democrats pushed through the Mansfield amendment, Knowland and Bridges telephoned Ike's headquarters in Thomasville, Ga. to advise acceptance of the change. An all-out push to restore the original wording, they argued, would inevitably bring on a damaging congressional brawl. Unenthusiastically Ike said O.K., issued a statement that the Senate text seemed "intended and designed to accomplish the purposes outlined by the President." Probable result: the Democratic version will pass both houses with the near unanimity that the President fervently wants...