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...Announced, through Press Secretary James C. Hagerty, that the White House will no longer volunteer information about after-business-hours personal guests and social events. President Eisenhower was said to be angry about the rash of news stories and speculation concerning his recent stag dinners and about jealous protests from people who were not invited. The announced guest lists for 38 of the dinners had included the names of 294 businessmen; 81 Administration officials; 51 editors, publishers and writers; 30 educators; 23 Republican Party leaders; 18 scientists, artists and sportsmen; 16 military friends; ten heads of foundations or charities; nine...
...have meaning. They are conventional symbols for the spiritual realities we call ideas. Until the recent past, a kind of abiding respect for language kept us from permitting its disintegration through arbitrary combination of its mangled elements. When new words came to life, their birth was superintended by jealous academies of lexicographical midwives . . . Now anything goes...
...last month, when Yoshida was touring the U.S. and Europe, a cabal of jealous Liberal Party members developed a new and promising intrigue: their idea was simply to re-form the conservative movement-without Shigeru Yoshida. Last week these conservatives brought their maneuver into the open, and Yoshida was in the fight of his life...
Fact was that, though his Washington trip had stirred the people, it had miffed the Assembly. Old EDC supporters and "good Europeans" had been counting on U.S. antipathy to help bring Mendes down, and were dismayed when Dulles pronounced him a "superman." Deputies, jealous of their prerogatives, did not like Mendes' advance assurance that France would make it "a point of honor ... to be among the first to ratify" the Paris agreements...
...primitive Indians living in the village of Amecameca at the volcano's base, it is frightening. Centuries ago their ancestors cast human sacrifices into the crater's fiery maw. Today Popocatepetl sleeps, but the Indians of Amecameca are sure that it is still hungry and jealous of its rights...