Word: mutuals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most valuable to his brother. "The President," he says, "has vast machinery to get evidence on public problems. But in this lonely job it is good for him to have someone who is a good listener and a sympathetic friend who can serve as a sounding board." By mutual consent, his role as friend and sounding board is not a matter for tabloid parade. "We have an understanding," President Eisenhower has told friends, "that we will keep each other's confidences...
...conversations run the whole range of policy problems and mutual personal interests. Both are ardent anglers, and Milton, who trolls for walleyed pike in Wisconsin's Land O'Lakes district, gives away no points to Ike. "I am every bit as good a fisherman," he says firmly, "as my brother." Both are ferociously intense painters, Ike in oil and Milton in painstaking watercolors. Before a slipped disk took him off the fairways, Milton shot an unorthodox but Ike-worthy game of golf (high 80s). Now and then the brothers get together with friends for an evening of bridge...
Arrested in Miami last week: Charles Hormel, 45, the smooth-talking, high-flying U.S. citizen who identified himself to a TIME correspondent in Havana as the pilot of a plane loaded with arms that ditched in Guantanamo Bay fortnight ago (TIME, Sept. 1). Charge: violating the U.S. Mutual Security Act by illegally exporting munitions, specifically, a load of arms and ammunition destined for Fidel Castro in his war against Dictator Fulgencio Batista...
...Family planning ought to be the result of "thoughtful and prayerful Christian decision.'' The means are largely a matter of "clinical and aesthetic choice." But for Christians some means are unlawful: 1) withholding of one partner from the other without mutual consent; 2) interrupted coitus, precluding the husband's or wife's "full completion of the sexual act"; 3) induced abortion or infanticide. The bishops endorsed artificial insemination only if the husband is the donor...
Finally, thankfully. Congress reached the last major order of business. Sent to the White House after closing night: a keystone bill providing $3,298,092,500 for foreign aid and mutual security. The final total was $220 million more than the House wanted, $220 million less than the Senate had previously voted, and $652 million below the total that President Eisenhower originally requested...