Word: posts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...marched in and out of his Carlyle Hotel suite. No working Stevenson backer came to call. Sam Rosenman had breakfast with Harriman and Truman, escorted Truman to a meeting of the Council on Foreign Relations, closed out the day with Harry and Bess Truman at "21." When New York Post Publisher Dorothy Schiff (George Backer's exwife) asked Truman about Stevenson's chances, she got a meaningful reply. Reported Publisher Schiff: "Mr. Truman pointed out that a once-defeated presidential candidate has never won in American history except in the strange case of Grover Cleveland." And above...
Texas (56): For Favorite Son Lyndon Johnson, after that at the trading post...
Near Berastegui sprawls a 17,000-acre ranch that Rojas recently bought in an unusual auction. Originally the judge in charge of the sale insisted that the bidding start at 2,500,000 pesos. He was abruptly dismissed from his post. His successor lowered the starting bid by 800,000 pesos, and Rojas, the sole bidder, snapped up for 1,700,000 an estate worth an estimated...
...bills, or get the paper on a businesslike basis. Fox went into a four-hour huddle with employees and emerged with a statement that the union leaders all proclaimed "satisfactory." At week's end, Fox was still scrambling to hang on to the Post...
Applied research also turns up rich and diversified rewards. Chrysler Corp.'s research in hydraulic pumps for cars resulted in a hospital pump that delivers liquefied natural food directly to a post-operative patient's stomach, eliminating the need for intravenous feeding in many cases. General Motors' development of a sensitive device to test automotive parts yielded an electronic "stethoscope" for doctors...