Word: guested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...could get on to Gettysburg to put the farmhouse in order, Mamie hurried the White House social season to completion last week with three majors-the diplomatic reception, and formal dinners honoring the Vice President and the Speaker of the House. Washington's society reporters, combing the guest lists, dug out a tidbit. Wisconsin's Joe McCarthy was the only ranking Republican member of a congressional committee who was not invited to one of last week's formal dinners. Reporters hurried over to see Mamie's secretary, Mary Jane McCaffree, to ask why McCarthy...
...guest with the most reason for satisfaction was Rear Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, who long fought the pressure of Navy brass and the skepticism of many scientists about the practicality of nuclear power. (As late as 1949, Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer said, "Nuclear power for planes and battleships is so much hogwash.") In last week's test runs, the Nautilus behaved as well as Rickover and his associates hoped it would. Afterwards an officer confidently reported: "Hell, we could have gone to Europe and back without coming up." The Nautilus is powered by steam turbines. The heat comes from...
...Korean general named Kang Moon Bang had an unexpected guest last week during a briefing session at ROK army HQ in Taegu: the top U.S. soldier in Korea, General Maxwell Taylor. As Kang Moon Bang talked on, a window at one side of the room slid open, and another unexpected guest popped into the room...
...newcomer waved a .45 service automatic and aimed it ominously at General Taylor, commander of all U.S. ground forces in the Far East. For a stupefied moment, nothing happened. Then a husky Korean general grabbed the uninvited guest in a hammer lock, while another Korean punched him in the jaw and a third pinned his arms to his side. As Korean sentries rushed into the room, Taylor calmly suggested that the briefing continue. In an embarrassed five minutes, the lecture was over. Before General Taylor left for Seoul, he ordered his public relations officers to say nothing about the incident...
...Washington's staunchest bachelors, new House Speaker Sam Rayburn, 63, made a date with his youngest sister, Lucinda Rayburn, gallantly helped her into a fur wrap before they headed for the White House, where Texas-Democrat Rayburn was the President's dinner guest of honor...