Word: likelies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...went off to view Tunisia's gifts to the President: a delicately boned little Persian-Arabian gelding called Ghali (Precious) and two yearling desert gazelles. The two Presidents then drove to the nearby American cemetery, past crowds of women who hailed Ike with a birdlike warbling that sounded like you-you-you. Ike laid a red, white and blue wreath, stood bareheaded for a long two minutes in tribute to the dead of his former North Africa command. Then he drove on past big, shouting crowds to the airport, and four hours after he landed in Tunisia, was steaming...
Foreign Policy: Columnist Joseph Alsop wrote fortnight ago that Rockefeller "regards the Eisenhower foreign policy as sadly unimaginative and the Eisenhower defense program as grossly inadequate." Viewing Eisenhower policies as "almost Chamberlain-like," Alsop went on, Rockefeller is undertaking to "stake out a neo-Churchillian position...
...major foreign-policy speech in Milwaukee last week, Rockefeller did not sound so much like Winston Churchill as like a man looking for a fresh image. But he did make it clear, without putting forward any concrete proposals of his own, that he is dissatisfied with the U.S.'s foreign-policy performance during the Eisenhower years. "We have seemed too often to lack coherent and continuing purpose. Rather, we have relied on sporadic responses to sudden needs and crises . . . Perhaps we have been dreaming that words could be substituted for deeds, problems be patched up with slogans, abstract proclamations...
...whole community. But the 300 Negroes of Teviston had a promise of bounty that seemed greater than all the growing things in the green valley: fresh water that would run to every house in Teviston from the deep well on the empty lot. And standing over the well like a monument, was the gift (sold at half price by one company, installed at no charge by another) that they had given to each other-the pride of the new Teviston Water District-a big, blue, beautiful pump...
...Soviet attack, the only one that has refused to hook into the Europe-wide air-warning-and-command net that NATO hopes to finish building by 1961. (Given the small size of Western Europe-Paris lies only 350 miles from the Communist frontier of East Germany-this is roughly like refusing to agree to coordinated air defense of Chicago and Minneapolis...