Word: masters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...program was cast in a mold of informality, with Ike and Dulles discussing the Paris sessions, but it actually showed the President of the U.S. as master of ceremonies for the Secretary of State's featured role. Ike spoke briefly at the beginning and end of the program, reading from a rough text which he had written out during the afternoon. Said he of the NATO meeting: "There was one basic purpose implicit in every discussion and debate of the conference. That was the pursuit of a just peace. Not once during the week did I hear any slightest...
...eleven when his family drove in from Arkansas in a 1929 Overland Whippet, picked cotton, waited anxiously with his mother and three brothers each Saturday to learn if his father had made enough money for groceries. Today Peoples, 32, is a graduate of Fresno State College, works on his master's degree, and is Fresno's deputy probation officer. "There were two kinds of people then," he recalls. "Those who had never had a desire to improve themselves -and those who were looking for some way to better their lot. My father-he didn't wear whiskers...
Nothing has held the valley back: in the years since the first struggle to master the desert, Okie farmers big and small, along with the natives, have made San Joaquin Valley responsible for 92% of California's cotton crop (1957 estimated total: 11 million bales) and California the second biggest (after Texas) cotton-producing state in the nation. Valley land, once for sale at $150 an acre, now goes...
...despot so willingly, so frequently, and so publicly drunk. Not since Adolf Hitler had the world known a braggart so arrogantly able to make good his own boasts. In 1957 Nikita Khrushchev did more than oversee the launching of man's first moons. He made himself undisputed and single master of Russia. Few men had traveled so far so fast...
Only a pathological optimist would have wagered a wooden nickel on U.S. chances to bring home the Davis Cup. The best men U.S. Captain Bill Talbert could muster for the challenge round against Australia were young (22) Barry MacKay, U.S. intercollegiate champion, and Old (34) Master Vic Seixas, who left his best tennis on the center court at Forest Hills back in 1954. Aussie Captain Harry Hopman made the most of a bountiful supply of stars by calling on 22-year-old Mai Anderson, proud owner of the U.S. championship, and Ashley Cooper, another youngster (21) with years of experience...