Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...needled throughout his trip, "have you finished your sausage?") He patted the cheek of a Lithuanian woman who came to plead for the freedom of her two children behind the Iron Curtain, promised to arrange a reunion. He played a cheerful role in a Marx Brothers farce in an Iowa cornfield. He joshed Democrat Adlai Stevenson for talking to him: "Do you think you will be investigated by the Bureau of Un-American Affairs?" In a burst of generosity he handed his wristwatch to a Pittsburgh steelworker who offered him a stogie. He bowed his head respectfully for the luncheon...
...background, Safran selected symbols of the strong, busy nation that Khrushchev would see when and if he had the patience and interest to look: tall Iowa corn; a white-painted New England church; buildings under construction in U.S. cities; an Army Redstone missile; a gate at Brown University in Providence, R.I.; a new U.S. automobile; the presence of the guiding spirit of Abraham Lincoln...
...questioning almost every item that went through his office ("If it's to cost a nickel, then the nickel must go through here"), Iowa-born Wilfred McNeil, who never finished high school, got the services to squeeze out hundreds of millions of dollars a year in savings. Example: after his "road agents" (field investigators) found that airplane maintenance was improving, he told the Air Force to quit stocking 2.5 airplanes in spare parts for every operational plane, pared the figure...
...Sept. 23 The VIP (NBC, 10:30-11 p.m.).* Mr. K. visits the Garst farm at Coon Rapids, Iowa. TV cameras will be sighting in from every angle, hopeful of shooting some well-cured country ham. They will be keeping the vigil all week, at all hours, on all networks...
Last week the other 88% found a sorely needed traffic cop: the new American College Testing Program, brainchild of President E. F. Lindquist of the Measurement Research Center at the State University of Iowa. Using Lindquist's whizbang $1,000,000 scoring machines (6,000 answer sheets an hour), ACT is aimed at Midwestern colleges that have finally started using entrance exams and want to maintain uniform standards...