Word: leste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Acting as the eyes and ears of his brother Dwight, Johns Hopkins University President Milton Eisenhower flew south from Washington last week for a fact-finding and good-will swing through six nations of Central America. The trip, originally scheduled for June 15, was postponed lest Milton meet a backwash of the violence that greeted Vice President Nixon in Lima and Caracas...
...Lawyer Ed Shattuck, Knowland's campaign manager and Republican national committeeman, quit the Knowland campaign. Shattuck was criticized because he ran an ineffectual organization and, as a committeeman, should have been representing the whole party instead of one candidate-but mostly because his candidate did so badly. ¶ Lest fidgety Republican campaign contributors ditch Knowland as a lost cause, Vice President Richard M. Nixon passed the word that he would help raise money at G.O.P. fund-raising dinners only on the promise that all the money collected would go into a united Republican campaign kitty...
...diamond bracelets, Lieut. General Rafael ("Ramfis") Trujillo Jr., 29, lost a somewhat less entrancing war in Kansas. From the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, which Ramfis attended in between nightclub-commando exercises, came the word: the young general "did not successfully complete the course." Lest Ramfis lose himself in remorse, kindly Uncle Héctor Trujillo, figurehead President of the Dominican Republic, provided a nice nongraduation present: appointment to the newly created post of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the country's armed forces...
...running independently." Even the low-lying Nixon forces were flirting with the idea of grabbing control of the November campaign from the Knowland-ites. There was talk that Vice President Nixon would step in, not only to restore order but to protect his own presidential chances lest a Democratic victory this fall pull important California out from under...
Near five o'clock, however, a lone bus stole furtively away from Essex with no calling from the loudspeaker, lest the party be broken up on the spot...