Word: presi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first week of the conference had begun in confusion and concern, with the U.S.'s John Foster Dulles striving manfully to stiffen the backbone of the divided West. He made it clear that he. like Presi dent Eisenhower, viewed Indo-China as "the cork in the bottle," to be held in place at all costs. Any such compromise settlement as partition of Indo-China, he argued, could only result in ultimate Communist capture of the whole country. Meanwhile, the Chinese Reds showed signs that the prospect of Western military action in Southeast Asia had them worried...
...Pres ident. I told them, 'Look at all the Vice Presidents in history. Where are they? They were about as useful as a cow's fifth teat.'" When he first said it, Harry Truman was roughly right; but today, any generalization about the uselessness of Vice Presi dents falls over the example of Richard Nixon, 36th Vice President of the U.S., who is one of the busiest, most useful and most influential men in Washington...
...report that Balzotti was kidnapped by the Lampoon staff was denied last dent, who said "I know nothing about night by John Updike '54, Lampoon presi-anyone named Balzotti...
...even marked on some maps. Yet, on a flight over the area, he could find no trace of the road. Ruiz Cortines called in the contractor and fined him three times the amount of his claim for nonfulfillment of contract. For the big job of federal district governor, the Presi-'dent picked a veteran Alemánista, but built such a fire under him that the old wheelhorse leaped like an apocalyptic charger against price-gouging movie exhibitors, police-protected brothels and unsightly sidewalk peddlers, then went frantically to work repairing street drains in flood-plagued working-class districts...
...Democrats were arguing bitterly over the question whether Dwight Eisenhower had enough experience to be President, and whether he was decisive enough. By last week, it seemed hard to believe that the argument had ever really taken place. Eisenhower had taken com mand as quickly and firmly as any Presi dent-elect in U.S. history...