Word: iii
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With Mrs. Eisenhower the President went out one night to the opening of the movie Richard III. He found Producer-Director-Star Laurence Olivier worried that he might not enjoy the show, which was taking up some three hours of his leisure. "If it displeases you," said Olivier, "I will be outraged with myself." The President was not displeased. Even if he had been, this first trip to a theater since his heart attack was more than an evening out: the affair was a benefit for the Washington Heart Association...
...price on the open market. By a margin of one vote it revived a two-parity formula that will raise support levels for corn, wheat, cotton and peanuts. The one-vote margin for the two-headed system came from West Virginia's new Democratic Senator William R. Laird III (see below), who had been sworn in just an hour before the roll call, and was casting his first vote...
William Ramsey Laird III, West Virginia's new Senator, is a husky six-footer with prematurely grey hair and a leaning toward liberalism, "if liberal means one who is for the common good." At 39 he is the third youngest Senator (younger: Louisiana's Long, 37; Massachusetts' Kennedy...
...both Annapolis and West Point the time had come for change of command. The academies' new superintendents: CJ Rear Admiral William R. Smedburg III, 53, commanding officer of the U.S.S. Iowa during the Korean war, since 1953 director of military and political affairs in the office of the Chief of Naval Operations...
John U. Lemmon, III '47, a former HDC star, won an Oscar Wednesday as the best supporting actor of 1955. He received the award for his portrayal of Ensign Pulver in "Mr. Roberts...