Word: guested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...India, as well as with the rest of non-Communist Asia. Along with this praise was the implication that India can now act as an advocate of the U.S. among the non-Caucasian peoples of the Middle East and Asia. When the talk turned to money, Ike assured his guest of American willingness to cooperate (possibly with long-term credits) in helping along India's second five-year plan...
Soft & Slumbrous. Whisking into Manhattan, Nehru was the honor guest at an honest-to-gaudy, cushy stag luncheon for 500 bigwigs and local politicos given by Mayor Robert Wagner (who valiantly intoned that "You do us signal honor . . . on your brief sojourn," solemnly proposed a toast to "the President of India"). He got his ear bent by loquacious Governor Averell Harriman, who introduced the Prime Minister to pin-neat Tammany Hall Boss Carmine De Sapio ("Carmine-I was just telling the Prime Minister here about you . . ."). His balding head glistening, the flower in his buttonhole lazily depetaling, Nehru wadded...
...Guest writing in place of off-duty United Presshen Aline Mosby, full-bodied Cineminx Jayne Mansfield got confidential about her limelight techniques: "My press clippings, bound, weigh 95 lbs. . . . They've meant everything to my career thus far ... If you tell [newsfolk] the truth they try very hard not to hurt you with it ... When my daughter, Jayne Marie, now six, comes to an age when she will have problems, I'll hand her my scrapbook and say, 'This was your mother...
...relief concert in London, hot-lipped Trumpeter Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong and five local cats out-blasted the whole blasted Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, which sought to play under the hesitant, finally motionless, baton of Conductor Norman Del Mar. After running wild until shortly before midnight, Satchmo, on hand as a guest artist to fill out, not ruin, the Philharmonic, loped off stage while a flustered impresario temporarily confiscated his trumpet to prevent an all-night encore. But the hep types filling Royal Festival Hall screamed and stomped for more. (One of the most insistent: the rock-'n'-rolling Duke...
After an uncomfortable chat with his Paris house guest, Dillon issued his own statement, emphasized he "had no intention of minimizing the effect of worldwide moral pressure which was exerted through the United Nations." Hedged the ambassador: he would have listed all the causes behind the British-French action, but time ran out on him. Explaining his good intentions, Dillon explained something else as well: why, as a result of such impulses toward irresponsibility, U.S. foreign policy is sometimes criticized as confused...