Word: hoovers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...general campaign of November, he "had no stomach for hurling real or fancied charges against the Democrats," and no particular desire to laud Herbert Hoover either. Instead, he praised the memory of Woodrow Wilson, argued for economic reform, and won by 23,000 votes against a Roosevelt landslide...
Back home and full of bounce after a five-week tour of Western Europe was Dwight Eisenhower, 71; bouncing back nicely in a Manhattan hospital after an operation to remove a polypoid lesion from his large intestine was Herbert Hoover, 88; perennially bouncy Harry Truman, 78, was gadding about Manhattan...
...percolating downward. Fresh from rewriting U.S. high school physics, M.I.T.'s Jerrold Zacharias and colleagues are busily doing the same for elementary school science. Astronomy starts in fourth grade in East Whittier, Calif., and geometry in second grade in Burlingame. Calif. At San Francisco's Herbert Hoover Junior High School, which last year had 14-year-olds earning college credits in math. 40 of this year's seventh-graders will be so well started that once they get to college they may get M.A.s in math before they graduate...
Last week Truman was on hand to lead a crowd of 30,000 in singing Happy Birthday as Hoover, marking his 88th year, returned to his grass-roots birthplace at West Branch, Iowa (pop. 1,053), to dedicate his own library, the fourth presidential library created by Congress (others: Roosevelt's at Hyde Park, N.Y., Eisenhower's at Abilene, Kans.). But on this occasion, an ex-President did more than ribbon-snip. Speaking "as the shadows gather around me," Hoover took the United Nations to task. The world organization was racked by the "disintegrating forces" of the Communist...
...World-Telegram launched listless crusades against pigeons (they carry lice and disease) and buses (the service is lousy). Amid a welter of daily stories about the Monroe suicide, Hearst's Journal-American still found two pages on which to reproduce a dozen letters that former U.S. President Herbert Hoover got from children. One desperate day, the Herald Tribune, which has been running a daily picture of unrepaired potholes in New York streets, abruptly shifted this feature onto Page One*#151;and expanded the pothole from two columns...