Word: likes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What I particularly like about Secretary of the Treasury Robert B. Anderson's prayer is that it gives thanks for our blessings and does not beg for special favors...
...Cotton Bay Club on Eleuthera Island in the Bahamas is a world-famed playground for fun-loving celebrities and tired millionaires. In recent years, it has become the favorite retreat of top-ranking military men, too-so much so that at times the Cotton Bay Club has looked more like a tropical officers' club than the gilt-edged resort it is. Last week the House Armed Services Committee revealed that a lot of the high brass have been relaxing on the Cotton Bay Club's palm-fringed golf course as freeloading guests of Baltimore's Martin...
Answering blasts came from the Catholic press. "Protestant misrepresentatives like Bishop Pike," said the Catholic News, newspaper of the Archdiocese of New York, differ from the Ku Klux Klan "only in degree." The Brooklyn Tablet, another diocesan paper, said it would be "the Fifth Essence of Arrogance-the kind that foretells madness," for the U.S. to allow other nations to believe that Americans want to encourage a slowdown of other peoples' population growth...
...past two months Senator Lyndon Johnson has galloped relentlessly and restlessly around his native Texas, officially campaigning only to retain his aisle seat in the Senate. But "Johnson for President" clubs have sprouted in his tracks like mushrooms in a meadow. This week Johnson, already proclaimed a candidate by Fellow Texan Sam Rayburn, let his true love show, saddled up for a fast political shivaree in four nearby states. Quipped a Dallas wag: "He's just campaigning for re-election in Missouri, Kansas, Iowa and Arizona...
Reconciliation. No longer do Americans in India find themselves subjected to the special brand of Indian inquisition that used to feature a series of needling questions: Why does the U.S. back dictators like Chiang Kai-shek and Franco? Why does the U.S. arm Pakistan, India's obvious enemy? Why are Negroes oppressed in the South? Last month, when quietly competent U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker addressed the first session of the newly formed Indo-American Society in rambunctious, left-wing Calcutta (where Eisenhower was burned in effigy in 1956), he was astonished to find that it had already a thousand...