Word: primed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thus the President set the keynote for the stream of commencement speeches on hundreds of U.S. campuses, as leaders from government and civic ramparts heralded the June rites (see EDUCATION). Among the most distinguished was a visitor from Britain: Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, who, after a harrowing transatlantic flight and a quick Washington welcome from Secretary of State Dulles, headed for Indiana by plane and auto to deliver his views on the cold war before an audience at Indiana's DePauw University...
After once turning back to London when his Britannia turboprop airliner sprang an oil leak, Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan flew into Washington, then on to Greencastle, Ind. (22,-300) this week to deliver the commencement address at De-Pauw University, successor to the medical school attended by his Hoosier maternal grandfather in 1849. Spelling out "why the Soviet Union has satellites while in the free world we have allies," Macmillan laid out in cousinly candor the tough-minded assumptions that hold the free world together. Excerpts...
...chipper as a schoolboy in June, India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru seemed up to his jodhpurs in glee on his first real vacation in twelve years. Accompanied by daughter Indira, Nehru loped off to a government guest house in the Himalayas for ten days of loafing, riding and sunbathing. Between jeep rides to local bazaars, Nehru finally got around to the job of editing letters between him, Mahatma Gandhi, George Bernard Shaw and Bengali Poet Rabindranath Tagore, discovered that white ants had long since eaten choice parts of the moldy papers...
...candidate" to run for Democrat Bill Proxmire's U.S. Senate seat in November. The convention endorsed former State Supreme Court Justice Roland Joseph Steinle, 62, a burly (6 ft. 238 Ibs.) stemwinder with a cheesemaker's handshake who calls himself neither radical nor conservative. Steinle's prime asset : as a supreme court justice he was not involved in last year's bitter seven-man G.O.P. Senate primary in which the Old Guard lost out to Ikeman and former Governor Walter Jodok Kohler, then stayed home in strength while Kohler lost the election to hard-campaigning, Fair...
...considered harmless by most (Australians to the contrary), and virtually unknown in literature. They have large ears which stick up--a help in finding a rabbit in a crowd--and small, happy tails. Through no fault of their own they bear the standard of sexual fertility--an aspect of prime importance in determining their role as symbol...