Word: pleasing
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President Eisenhower lost his temper over defense last February, and Nixon no doubt feels that it would be unwise to deviate too far from his chief on this touchy subject. At the same time, he knows that people have little faith in Eisenhower's pleas that they trust his planning...
Pat Brown, California's Governor, won the long-sticking epithet "Tower of Jelly" because he could not make up his mind which game to play-"Back-Jack" or "Favorite Son." After it was too late to matter, an aide reported facetiously that Pat had just conducted another of his...
Pleas of Sympathy. Last week the jury of one Negro and eleven whites heard final characterizations of the chunky borough president by the defense ("a babe in the woods") and the prosecution ("plain cupidity"), and a lucid charge by Judge Joseph A. Sarafite. After filing into the jury room, they...
The man behind the demonstrations at both meetings is James Peck, 45, editor of CORE'S Corelator. Despite his two latest setbacks, Peck believes that attending company meetings produces results, says his pleas helped to cause W. T. Grant to open its lunch counters in Baltimore to Negroes and...
His modesty was becoming. During the construction of Rockefeller Center, he resisted all efforts "to plaster the family name all over a piece of real estate." gave in only on the urgent pleas of his five sons. When his father died at 97, he refused to drop the "Junior" from...