Word: leader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fine, enthusiastic form at a Blair House reception held by Richard Nixon in his honor. To the State Department's Cultural Exchange Boss William Lacy, who showed up with a broken finger, Kozlov quipped that the accident was from an "EastWest handshake." When Nixon introduced House Minority Leader Charlie Halleck as "a tough politician, like you," Kozlov boomed a laugh. He smiled when he called Electrical Workers' Union Boss James Carey a "tradeunion bureaucrat." Introduced to little (5 ft. 10 in.) House Speaker Sam Rayburn, Kozlov observed that Rayburn's opposite number in the Soviet Union...
...Loan Fund on a five-year basis by the device of borrowing $1 billion annually from the Treasury. In mid-debate. South Dakota Republican Francis Case casually made a point of order: Wasn't this provision circumventing the Appropriations Committee, which should approve all such spending schemes? Republican Leader Ev Dirksen deftly used Case's objection to block the measure. Finally Dirksen reached a compromise with Majority Leader Johnson, and a substitute amendment was effortlessly pushed through, essentially the way the Administration wanted it. It provided $2 billion for development loans over the next two years-with...
...Frenchmen were showing a lively curiosity about their leader's health but no alarm (the Elysée Palace issues no bulletins on the President's fitness). He is a man under strain, a man who deliberately isolates himself, unhesitantly separating himself from his supporters as from his enemies. In foreign affairs he has been determined to demand a greater say for France in Western councils. If often annoyed, Washington (like France) believes that a difficult De Gaulle is preferable to a France with no De Gaulle...
Captain Schmitt, officially absolved of blame in the crash, offered his apologies to the townspeople, through the press, and 35 airmen attended Buddhist funeral services for the children. Though Kame-jiro Senaga, leader of the pro-Communist Minren Party, tried to make political capital out of the accident, no one else did, and most Okinawans seemed genuinely impressed by U.S. rescue efforts following the crash. And any critics would have to ignore a startling safety record: the crash caused the first Okinawan fatalities in 14 years of U.S. occupation...
...muttered Yankee Manager Casey Stengel, "and I gotta find out what it is.' As last week began, marking the season's halfway point, Casey's noble Yankees, perennial champions, were ignobly mired in fifth place, and baseball legend has it (none too accurately*) that the league leader on the Fourth of July will win the pennant...