Word: nice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nice & Busy. The differences between Knight and Nixon are both personal and political. Some Californians trace open signs of ill will to a 1952 campaign incident, when Knight was brushed off (and shoved out of camera range) when he showed up to welcome Nixon at a California airport. Ever since then. Goody has spoken sulphurously of Dick in private, and the California G.O.P. central committee, which the governor controls, has slighted the Vice President instead of offering him the traditional home-state support. Last week the governor welcomed the Vice President with the warmth of an arctic midnight...
...welcome him with a party gathering, made plans for a luncheon at the Ambassador Hotel. "It was agreed," said Los Angeles County G.O.P. Chairman John Krehbiel, "that Governor Knight should be honorary chairman." But when Krehbiel phoned to ask the governor, Goody was not enthusiastic. "That's nice." he said, "but I'll have to look at my calendar...
...Coney Island. In 1950, fired by neighboring India, a revolution at last unseated the despotic Ranas, and Tribhubana was set up as a true king, but the "democratic rule" he promptly proclaimed turned out to be only that of a pack of corrupt politicians. Last month, lying ill in Nice, he formally turned the whole job over to his eldest son, Prince Mahendra...
...hard to be too conservative as a churchman in Spain, but Seville's Pedro Cardinal Segura y Saenz has managed it. He has lambasted Dictator Franco for being too nice to Protestants and for allowing the Falange to be too "anticlerical," he has looked nostalgically back at the Inquisition, has damned and damped down such pleasures as movies and dances in his archdiocese of Seville...
Though honesty's nice...