Word: performances
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Administrative Assistant: Emmet J. Hughes, 31, an editor of LIFE, former TIME & LIFE correspondent in Europe and onetime press attaché at the U.S. embassy in Madrid. An Eisenhower speechwriter and idea man during the campaign, Hughes will perform the same functions in Washington, and act as liaison man with the State Department on special assignments...
...Lodge's unexpired second term when Lodge went off to World War II in 1944. Meanwhile, he had developed a name as Massachusetts' top Republican money raiser, and in 1941 was named treasurer of the G.O.P. National Committee. In June 1952, he called upon Robert Taft to "perform a supreme act of self-denial which will electrify the nation," i.e., concede the Republican nomination to Ike. (Taft called the suggestion "ridiculous...
...Mercy Bent. But there were satisfactions. Boy Scouts not only pledge themselves to perform a good deed daily but actually live up to their oath. If an old lady gets sick, they will appear at her door week after week as volunteer shoppers and errand boys ("The staying power of boys on mercy bent sometimes surprises me"). If a child is ill, they will drop in to play checkers or to deliver homemade jigsaw puzzles...
...unanimous decision, the court decided that "no legislative organ can perform an act of levitation and lift itself above its own powers." This, in effect, voided Prime Minister Malan's attempt to disenfranchise Cape Province's 48,000 half-caste voters by a simple majority in Parliament, and bluntly reaffirmed that the court is still tops...
Baby Brain. In Manhattan, Curta Calculator Co. demonstrated a pocket-size calculator, made in Liechtenstein, which looks like a small, black pepper mill, and grinds out answers in much the same way. It can perform some standard calculating operations faster than many electric machines, and unlike most will calculate square roots almost instantaneously. Price...