Word: ille
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reader Hulburd is right-and there is more. Two other Roosevelt christenings in the White House: Elliott Jr. (1937) and Franklin D. Ill...
...Could've Done Worse. Robin Roberts began the rounding-off process early. By the time he was seven he was nourishing a well-developed dislike for his allotted chores on the Roberts farm near Springfield, Ill.; everything came second to learning how to play games-basketball, baseball, anything at all. "He never had a ball out of his hand," his mother Sarah Roberts remembers. "Ah well," says his proud Welsh father Tom. "He could've done a lot worse...
...reaction to Soviet offers to confer, the U.S. answers with despairing pessimism instead of cautious optimism. When Russia announced her arms cut, Secretary Dulles, a man of few and ill-chosen words, responded that "the obvious explanation" is as a propaganda tactic and a shift of manpower to industry and agriculture. This all may be true enough, but the Secretary's hasty appraisal is not the way to counter the Soviet gambit. Countries keeping an appraising eye on the two world foes see perpetual Russian smiles and perpetual American frowns. They are presented by the Kremlin with a fait accompli...
...poet he was, but a public one. In politics he ran a banner-waving, pamphlet-strewn, populace-stirring course-monarchist, Bonapartist, finally a rebel and exile who came to be called "Grandfather of the Republic." "It is ill praise to give a man that his politics have never changed for 40 years," he explained. "That is no more than to praise water for being stagnant, a tree for being dead...
President Eisenhower and Mr. Dulles talked long and hard about countering the Russian economic offensive. But they reversed thmselves in the Administration's recent bill for aid to underdeveloped countries. The ill-considered proposal which Congress is now debating increases military aid to $3 billion, but allots only $1 billion to economic assistance...