Word: illing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Action at Last? But it was not until President Eisenhower was first taken seriously ill in office that Congress earnestly commenced to consider the problem. After Ike's heart attack in September 1955 and his ileitis attack last year, Ike strongly urged that Congress act on the problem. A special five-member Judiciary subcommittee, appointed to study presidential inability, heard a proposal from then Attorney General Herbert Brownell for a constitutional amendment that would spell out the mechanics of certification: 1) the President could declare himself in writing unable to discharge his powers and duties and surrender them...
That click sent Richard Milhous Nixon, 44, into a week unique in the history of U.S. Vice Presidents. Twice before, Dwight Eisenhower had fallen suddenly ill, and twice before, Nixon had worked as a key member of the Administration team that picked up the load as best it could. But never before had Nixon or any other Vice President emerged so clearly as a leader during presidential illness...
Miss Lambert reportedly felt unwell yesterday afternoon, but was preparing to go on when she became ill. The other play on the program, "The Questioning of Nick," had already been given...
...peculiar fascination and shock of this book lie in the fact that it describes the irrational motivations of everyday acts--purchasing and consumption. This is not an account of the mentally ill; it applies to everyone reading the book. The shock for Mr. Packard, however, seems to be the discovery that human beings are not always rational, hardly a very amazing discovery...
...deep in the heart of Texas, had managed to snag Maria Callas to kick off his new Dallas Civic Opera Company with a grand inaugural concert. But earlier in the season the diva dived off the deep end and failed to appear with the San Francisco Opera Company, pleading ill-health (TIME, Sept. 30). Rumors said that her voice had cracked. Some people in Dallas thought she could not sing, others that she would not. Texans by the droves failed to buy tickets...