Word: partner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...obstetricians and gynecologists go in for massive doses of reassurance and emotional support to the troubled women they treat. Thrice-married Obstetrician Javert, father of two, prescribes other comforts in moderation-wine (in small doses as a sedative), singing and dancing, even tennis (preferably mixed doubles with husband as partner). And, to the relief of women who have spent as much as four or five months on their backs only to lose their babies anyway, he firmly opposes (except in the rarest of cases) one of the most onerous of all prescriptions: bed rest...
...Thrift is [once again] more than a word," the Taft-owned Cincinnati Times-Star cried happily in mid-1955 when John Baker Hollister, 64, onetime law partner of the late Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio, was named to coordinate U.S. foreign aid. As a Congressman from 1931 to 1936, Republican Hollister had fought the New Deal, voted against Cordell Hull's Reciprocal Trade Act. He was a longstanding disciple of ex-President Herbert Hoover, and it was Hoover who urged him on the Eisenhower Administration as the successor to free-swinging Harold Stassen as director of the International...
...principal stumbling block to his own ambitious plans for the Middle East, Egypt has been forced to look to Soviet Russia for encouragement. Russian trade with Egypt in the first months of this year quadrupled 1956's figures-but Russia is proving itself an exacting, suspicious and unprofitable partner, and Nasser's Moscow commitments have roused the Arab world's three Kings (Saud, Hussein and Feisal...
...Japan's new Conservative Premier Nobusuke Kishi had won his country's greatest postwar victory. It consisted of a set of fundamental changes in Washington's Japan policy that will go far toward establishing his fully sovereign and renascent country as the U.S.'s coequal partner in the Far East. In a joint communiqué issued by the President and the Premier after their talks and from less official leakage, it was plain that Kishi had come, seen...
Married. Basil O'Connor, 65, president (since its founding in 1938) of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, onetime law partner of Franklin D. Roosevelt; and Hazel Royall, 43, chief of functional physical therapy at the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation, of which O'Connor is also president; both for the second time; in Manhattan...