Word: m
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dwight Eisenhower slapped hard on the Cabinet table in front of him, snapped Republican congressional leaders out of their early-morning reverie. "It's a dole," said the President of the U.S. "I'm not going to stand for it." Ike was angered by the attempts of congressional Democrats to turn his unemployment-compensation bill into a loosely drawn federal handout to the states. And last week's humiliating defeat of the Democratic bill in the House of Representatives (see The Congress) was impressive evidence that Dwight Eisenhower-looking better and feeling better, more willing to fight...
Obie: "Colonel, I'm probably the only copilot who has soloed...
Result: Rhee's Liberals won 122 seats, Vice President John M. Chang's Democrats 77, Independents 27. The result was a victory for Rhee's heir-apparent, Lee Ki Poong, 61, Speaker of the Assembly, who last year gave his 20-year-old son to Rhee for adoption. But Rhee's Liberals failed to win the two-thirds majority they sought, which would have enabled Rhee to amend the constitution so as to prevent U.S.-educated Vice President Chang, 58, from succeeding if Rhee dies during the remaining two years of his term...
...visit for five days of capital sights, parties and interviews. Even the hostess with the mostes', peripatetic Party Giver Perle Mesta, gets her chance (for one hour) at the young prince, rumored to be Dictator Francisco Franco's choice for the Spanish throne. Said Perle: "I'm going to have a combination tea and cocktail hour. What I've planned to do is have the prince meet . . . some of the Republicans and Democrats here in Washington. This is what I thought the prince might like to do." Also on the schedule: peeks at West Point, Annapolis...
...just like old times down South for onetime Playgirl Patricia ("Honeychile") Wilder, now the wife of Prince Alexander Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst and proprietress of an Austrian resort hotel. On a recent safari to Italian Somaliland, it seems, Honeychile bought herself a slave girl. "I'm from Georgia, you know, in the Deep South, and we used to have slaves there," explained Honeychile. "The sweet little girl was only 16, and her father wanted to sell her to some old man. I just jumped into the affair and outbid the other buyer." But Honeychile still has one problem...