Word: ille
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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BETTE CONROY Park Forest, Ill...
...highest opinion of Humphrey's abilities, turned instinctively to him for counsel when Secretary of State Dulles lay ill during the Suez crisis. In February, even after Humphrey had flushed out the covey of budget cutters, the President went quail hunting on Humphrey's Georgia plantation. Because Humphrey is Ike's friend and a top Cabinet figure, his hair-curling statements called for an extra-strong presidential rebuke if the U.S. was to believe that it was being taxed for an honest-weight budget. Instead, Ike decided to smooth things over, seemed almost to be agreeing with...
Editor Gali was asked how it was that, though ill and half-blind, he had managed to be everywhere on Oct. 23, the first day of the revolution. He peered through his thick spectacles and answered: "In life there is always one day when one can do anything...
...remedies, the Commission proposed imposition of a 50 percent income tax on convicted gamblers, mandatory prison terms for a second offense, and fingerprinting of arrested bookies. Unfortunately, the opposing minority report by two legislator members of the Commission bodes ill for the passage of these proposals, not to mention the more ambitious suggestions, such as the abolition of all gambling in the state, the integration of local police departments, or making Attorney General an appointive position...
...door, notified officials, and sent for the police. In a short time they were on their way out to Cambridge to arrest Webster. When he was told about the discovery, he gulped out, "Did they find the whole body?" and then swallowed a small strychnine pill, which had no ill effect because of his excited condition...