Word: nixons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that Fidel Castro has talked to Vice President Nixon, Secretary of State Herter, 18 Congressmen, has charmed the American Society of Newspaper Editors, and has been interviewed on NBC's Meet the Press [May 4], he has accomplished exactly what he set out to do: get U.S. Government approval and the approval of the people of the U.S. for his coming invasion of Haiti and the Dominican Republic...
...half the voters are aware that Senator Kennedy is a Catholic. Only 47% of all voters can identify Kennedy's religion, and even fewer Protestant voters (42%) know that he is Catholic. In his most recent tabulation, without reference to religion, Gallup found that Kennedy led Vice President Nixon in a straw vote by the comfortable margin of 57% to 43%. By deducting from the totals those voters who say they will oppose a Catholic under any circumstances, Gallup evened the odds: Kennedy, 50%; Nixon, 50%. But he had a final word of statistical encouragement for Kennedy: if Kennedy...
Proving that "order and democracy are perfectly reconcilable" is the prime aim of Venezuela's new government-no small feat with Venezuela's record for jackboot rule. But in Caracas, where Communist-led street mobs stoned Vice President Richard Nixon last spring and rumbled menacingly when their candidate lost a free election in December, the new notion is taking hold. In the squat white building that 16 months ago housed the dreaded cops of ousted Dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez' Seguridad National, a branch of the Education Ministry was quietly at work last week...
...technicians-all NBC executives, and surprisingly competent. In all three cities the pros were picketing outside, fighting for their union's claims that the National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians ought to work on all NBC shows, even when they are taped abroad. One result: Vice President Nixon turned up for the award dinner three hours before it started in order to beat the pickets to Washington's Mayflower Hotel and technically avoid crossing the line. But Nixon would have done better to avoid the whole business. The show was so dull and pompous that the cast...
...when Vice President Richard Nixon presented the trophy last week, Dr. Carlsen had no hands to receive it. Nixon held it while, with good poise on her crutches, she made an apt acceptance speech...