Word: general
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...starting to pay off our [$284 billion] debt . . . Congress itself expects us to get in the business of paying off some of these great obligations, and I think we should." ¶ Pinned an oakleaf cluster, in lieu of a third Distinguished Service Medal, on the chest of retiring General Maxwell D. Taylor. Cracked Ike, as he searched for a place to pin the last award on the much decorated tunic of his wartime comrade: "There's not much room left, is there?" ¶ Adroitly fielded a press conference question that is bound to come up in a hundred different...
...lone dissenter was Justice Tom Clark, who disagreed so strenuously that Justice John Marshall Harlan chided him for succumbing to the "temptations of colorful characterization." Argued Clark, from the perspective of a longtime (1945-49) U.S. Attorney General: "Surely one does not have a constitutional right to have access to the Government's military secrets . . . No one reading the [majority] opinion will doubt that ... its broad sweep speaks in prophecy. Let us hope the winds may change. If they do not, the present temporary debacle will turn into a rout of our internal security...
...northern Italy, emerging from the dark battleground sepulcher. General Charles de Gaulle fortnight ago was seen to sway a little and then steady himself against the stone portal. A photograph shot at that moment was the most commented-upon picture in the Parisian press last week. When so much hangs on one man, a whole nation anxiously watches him. At 68, Charles de Gaulle's eyesight is failing; without his thick-lensed glasses, he often fails to recognize people who shake his hand, and he suffers momentary blindness when he steps from shadow into sunlight. The old soldier maintains...
Last week, with this in mind, the U.S. decided to give him the kind of public backing it has hitherto withheld. To Paris flew U.S. Information Agency Chief George V. Allen to address the 50th anniversary session of the Comité France-Amerique. Said Allen: "We believe General de Gaulle epitomizes much of the greatness, the strength of purpose and the high dignity of France. We are immensely heartened by the restored political stability and economic equilibrium of France." He praised "your initiative in creating another community, that of the eleven African states and Madagascar with France, which has also...
Suez. U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold flew to Cairo to discuss release of the Danish freighter Inge Toft, seized by his Suez Canal officials last May for carrying Israeli cement and potash destined for Hong Kong and Tokyo. On the morning of Hammarskiold's arrival, Nasser's Al Ahram printed Nasser's declaration that the U.A.R. would hold the Inge Toft's cargo on the ground (rejected by the U.N. Security Council's decision in 1951) that his country was in "a state of war" with Israel. Beneath the autographed pictures of Nehru, Tito, Chou...