Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most of the discussion revolves in four areas: the personal influences that are working on Ike to quit or run, the lifetime devotion of Old Soldier Eisenhower to a duty higher than personal influences, the correct direction of duty when a President knows his physical condition can be a hazard to the orderly processes of Government, the possibility that Ike might well be able to carry the load of the presidency if it were trimmed of nonessentials. In all of these areas the President himself has provided the hottest clues for both sides...
...Formosa, gave a $3,000 check to a Chinese friend, who cashed it on the black market and bought stock in the glassmaking firm. Said ICA: "At the official rate of exchange, this check at that time would have purchaised 60 shares of stock. As a result of the higher rate of exchange obtained by this illegal transaction, 90 shares of stock were obtained on behalf of Mr. Ladejinsky...
...Georgy Malenkov and his technocrat-commissars was on the wane, that of Party Secretary Nikita Khrushchev rapidly rising. Shortly after Malenkov's dramatic resignation (February 1955), the world learned that Kruglov was not, after all, top Soviet security man, but that there had existed for some months a higher State Security Committee, presided over by Kruglov's former deputy Ivan Serov. When Khrushchev went junketing to India, it was Serov who went along with him. Meanwhile, Minister Kruglov's department was under oblique criticism: his organization had failed to curb abuses in such pet Khrushchev projects...
...sooner were the votes counted than the block-Kubitschek camp, arguing that he would not have won without Communist endorsement, got to work. In the name of antiCommunism, morality and higher democracy, a faction-made up largely of navy and air force officers, intellectuals and conservative politicos-set out to prevent the President-elect's inauguration one way or another-if necessary, by means of a golpe (military coup...
...married Agent-Producer Sid Luft. When it seemed that a star had died, Luft resurrected her, put her back on her feet in big-time vaudeville (audiences at Manhattan's Palace and London's Palladium wept on hearing again her old, nostalgic Over the Rainbow), catapulted her higher than ever in movies and on TV. But somehow the Lufts' rainbow ended in a pot of debts, piled up, according to Luft's friends, because of his unhappy knack of betting on also-ran horses. Last week, after nearly four years of marriage and two children, Judy...