Word: mets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...East, new dangers for U.S. policy were arising in the Middle East and in North Africa. There was uneasiness in a number of the world's capitals about whether Dulles' State Department was organized and administered well enough to meet those problems as they should be met. A photograph of Dulles lying on a beach in Ceylon when there was highly disturbing news on the shores of the Mediterranean was splashed five columns across the front page of a London newspaper under the caption U.S. HEAVYWEIGHT...
Late & Long. Throughout the week there were other visitors and other causes. In the White House Rose Garden one grey, 43° day, the President met 291 national councilors of the U.S.O., told them how important their work is even in peacetime, and welcomed one of them, retired Admiral John Leslie Hall Jr. (who commanded amphibious landings under General Eisenhower during World War II) as "the old Viking admiral." On another day the President entertained Ireland's John A. (for Aloysius) Costello, who identified himself as a "very unimportant Prime Minister of a very important country," and presented...
...President kept in touch with the problems as well as with the people. He met with Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson and Admiral Arthur Radford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and later with the full J.C.S., to hear reports on the Puerto Rico conference on defense planning. Slipping out of the White House one night, he dined with members of the Commerce Department's Business Advisory Board, and listened to a briefing on North Atlantic Treaty Organization problems by his old friend and aide, General Alfred Gruenther. Ike added a new meeting to his schedule...
...Crimson contingent, stopped by drifting snow in the middle of Scollay Square, took refuge inside the Big Drum and sent out squads of banjo players to buy coffee. The combined resources of band members met the price of only a single cup of brew, however, since tariff changes early this week sent coffee prices rocketing...
Lemmon finally got the role by accident, when, wandering onto the wrong stage, he met Jack Ford, the director. Two months later Ford gave Lemmon the part...