Word: publically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Longchamp racetrack, a resplendent Aly Khan and his handsome son Prince Karim, the Aga Khan, were on hand to watch the running of the Grand Prix de Paris. Like any solicitous father, Aly unfurled his big topcoat to shield Karim from the rain. It was one of their few public appearances together since Karim became Aly's own spiritual ruler, helped dispel rumors that they have not hit it off well lately...
...South. This year, the fifth since Salk vaccine was introduced, it began in Florida and southern Texas, hit hardest at Mexicans. Last week it struck the Middle West, with concentrated epidemics among slum-dwelling Negroes in Des Moines and Kansas City. At week's end the U.S. Public Health Service reported that thus far in 1959 there have been 855 polio cases (574 paralytic) as against 588 (297 paralytic) in the same period last year...
...epidemics. Researchers note that in the first post-Salk vaccine year (1956), the worst polio was among one-year-olds, and in the second, among one-and two-year-olds. Now it is worst among the one-to three-year-olds. Bowing to the statistics, the Public Health Service has recommended that doctors begin polio shots for youngsters two to three months old along with vaccine for diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough...
...amazing degree of self-control and neatness-the secretary of his old Whittier law firm recalls that when he came to work, the first thing he did was to take several hundred books off the shelves to dust them-and these qualities also mark him in his public life. And yet, says Author Mazo. "nothing about Nixon's public image is less accurate than the view of him as a cold fish...
...taken a Cabinet job," Nixon scornfully told Mazo later, and a friend added that Eisenhower's failure to pick Nixon as his running mate at the very start was "one of the greatest hurts of his whole career." For a while, Nixon seriously considered leaving public life...