Word: noted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moment of Quiet. The renominations of President Dwight Eisenhower and Vice President Richard Nixon were unanimous. The President was soon to note the historic disparities of the Republican Party in telling how it gathered in "Free-Soilers, Independent Democrats, conscience Whigs, Barnburners, Soft Hunkers, teetotalers, vegetarians and transcendentalists." But in 1956, Republicans were united in knowing whom and what they wanted. Dwight Eisenhower could have brought on a "wide open" presidential nomination only by his own irrevocable withdrawal. And for months Ike had tried to avoid the appearance of dictation by withholding his all-out endorsement of Nixon. The fact...
Civil Rights. Both decry discrimination because of race, color or creed and the use of force to implement the Supreme Court's desegregation decisions. But the Democrats merely "recognize the Supreme Court . . . as one of the three constitutional . . . branches of the Federal Government," and note that its decisions "have brought consequences of vast importance to our Nation as a whole." The Republicans "accept" the decisions, and say that public-school discrimination must be "progressively eliminated . . . with all deliberate speed...
...little to go on: the first ransom note ("I hate to do this . . . I'm in great need. I could ask for more [than $2.000] but I am asking for only what I need") was handwritten in green ink; there were peculiarities in the m's and r's. As one crew of agents set out to track down the supplier of the type of paper that the note was written on, scores of agents started to examine a vast variety of public records. First, they vainly sorted through 75,000 fingerprint cards of people...
Aspen's Paepcke hopes that management will take careful note of insurance-company statistics indicting businessmen for poor health, and will underwrite stays for executives at his health center as a tax-deductible business expense. He thinks that he has developed a revitalizing program for "the whole...
...those were two-fisted piano players," he recalls. "Men like Sticky Mack and Doc Perry and James P. Johnson and Willie 'The Lion' Smith. With their left hand, they'd play big chords for the bass note, and just as big ones for the offbeat, and they really swang. The right hand played real pretty. They did things technically you wouldn't believe...