Word: gooding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...much concerned about inflation. But I think they have changed their minds." Ike's sidelong glance at one of the darkest moments of his Administration betrayed not at all the fact that White House staffers are wearing earsplitting grins behind closed doors, marveling at the too-good-to-last Administration success with the Democratic 86th Congress. Not only had the balanced budget carried the day, but in the U.S. Senate, spawning ground for 1960 Democratic presidential hopefuls. Democrats were fighting Democrats with increasing ferocity...
...dark imprints, looming ominously for any Catholic candidate. The Alabama Baptist, noting that Patterson did not speak for a majority of Alabamans, pronounced Kennedy hopelessly dominated by the Catholic hierarchy. And the Methodist Christian Advocate, official mouthpiece of Alabama's Methodists, denounced Patterson, conceded that Kennedy was a good man but that "the people of Alabama ... do not intend to jeopardize their democratic liberties by opening the doors of the White House to the political machinations of a determined, power-hungry Romanist hierarchy...
...Laos last week 600 schoolchildren wearing white shirts and black berets marched through the puddled streets of Vientiane in the first "antivice" drive in Laotian history. They carried "good'' banners, hailing the three Rs of "Revolution, Roads and Rice,'' and "bad'' banners condemning equally Communism, opium, prostitution, gambling and liquor. General Ouane Rattinkoun, 34, the Laotian chief of staff, watched approvingly as the bad banners were heaped in a pile, doused with gasoline and set afire. General Ouane. who has a Buddhist horror of going to extremes, says, "There is no question of making...
Cuba's Fidel Castro and his bearded rebels are probably not up to Trujillo's. Castro's warriors carry good U.S. arms, number 25,000. His defection-ridden air force includes 18 B-26s, seven T-33 Lockheed jet trainers, no jet fighters...
Confronted with any number of good causes to spend money on, appalled by the swift obsolescence of military hardware, even faintly hoping that a cold war thaw might resolve the question. Prime Minister John Diefenbaker's government delayed for months a $350 million decision: whether to replace the outmoded Sabre day fighters flown by eight of Canada's twelve NATO squadrons in Europe. Ottawa's long irresolution spurred a mild rash of public and private talk that Canada should spend the money on aid to underdeveloped nations instead-to the extent that a discomfited Diefenbaker, while collecting...