Word: latine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...State of the Union" message to fellow Democrats, pushed a liberal-spending, twelve-point program (e.g., "bold" housing program, depressed areas bill) that included several items clearly beyond his legislative role and inside the executive area ("breathe life into the newly created space agency," "a consistent policy for Latin America"). He got off to a fast start on a quicker-than-the-eye maneuver to limit slightly the Senate's filibuster Rule 22, hoppered his own civil rights bill as a necessary prerequisite for any ambitious Texan seeking to prove that he is a Westerner, not a Southerner...
...great-great-grandson of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, made a fortune in his own right -after graduating from Harvard ('27) and studying aviation at Massachusetts Institute of Technology-as an aviation-securities specialist in Wall Street. As Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Air (1943-47), Burden specialized in Latin American air transportation problems, was a close associate of Presidential Assistant Nelson Rockefeller. As Special Assistant for Research and Development to the Secretary of the Air Force (1950-52), Burden laid the groundwork for his appointment by President Eisenhower last May to the blue-ribbon National Aeronautics and Space Council...
...fashion, made a display of moderation in anticipation of their forthcoming exchange of visits. But in Washington representatives of the SEATO powers were gravely considering the most serious military threat their alliance had ever faced, and in Rio de Janeiro U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold cut short a Latin American tour to fly back to New York for an emergency session of the U.N. Security Council. While Moscow burbled of a "thaw in the cold war," new Communist aggression in Laos had plunged Asia into a crisis that, unchecked, might broaden, Korea-style, into a major conflict...
...growing up in Dorchester, on the southern edge of Boston, his hobby was chemically analyzing his mother's laundry soap. The stench forced his photoengraver father to build him a lean-to lab outside the house. But the boy chemist's talents got him into famed Roxbury Latin School (he was the most precocious science student in 20 years) and through Harvard in three years. He married the daughter of Harvard's top chemist; in 1931 Professor Conant himself took over the department. "Bryant," said his mother once, "always had a formula for everything...
Writing in the latest issue of the confraternity's journal. Reunion, Anglican Rea said that during a private audience last June the Pope noticed that the Anglican was carrying a breviary-a compilation of daily prayers and psalms in Latin that are obligatory for Roman Catholic priests. "That book of his looks a bit old," said John to his interpreter. "Mine is not so new. but it's newer than his. I will give...