Word: iii
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nasser. With the considerable assistance of our own State Department's extra-sized umbrella and his brazen Kremlinfamy, he's ignited in the Middle East the spark of World War III...
...leads." The British and French, who had sought to make policy by reviving 19th century gunboat diplomacy, had temporarily lost their credentials for world statesmanship. But in another sense, the U.S. had earned the new regard by its own conduct. In time of crisis and threat of World War III, President Eisenhower had cast U.S. policy in a role to reflect the U.S.'s basic character-its insistence on justice, its desire for friendship, and its hatred of aggression and brutality...
Born in Pecatonia, III., in 1890, he attended the University of Chicago, receiving his PhD there in 1920. He taught at Chicago from 1919 to 1928, becoming an associate professor of Geography. In 1928 he came to Harvard and was made a full professor...
United as One. Now, as at all times since World War II, the U.S. did not believe that the Soviets wanted World War III, but Dwight Eisenhower took no chances. Out of the White House flowed a series of crisp and rippling decisions, a new urgency of diplomatic cables and phone calls. Through the lobby on the way to the President's office hustled so many VIPs-Vice President Nixon, Acting Secretary of State Herbert Hoover Jr., CIA Director Allen Dulles, Defense Mobilizer Arthur Flemming, Joint Chiefs Chairman Admiral Arthur Radford, et al. -that White House reporters lost count...
Died. Marshall Field III, 63, burly. silver-haired multimillionaire philanthropist, New Dealing magazine (Parade) and newspaper (New York's defunct PM. Chicago's Sun-Times) publisher and rich man's grandson; after brain surgery; in Manhattan. Chicago-born Marshall Field was educated at Eton and Cambridge, never learned to bear comfortably the estimated $168,000,000 he inherited from nail-hard department store Tycoon Marshall Field I, once said: "If I cannot make myself worthy of three square meals a day I don't deserve them." Rich Boy Field won a captaincy and a Silver Star...