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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rarely in peacetime had a Cabinet session been so charged with talk of wide-ranging travel, wide-ranging hopes-and a mood of crossed fingers. From the two dozen members of the President's official family and staff, ranged around the big hexagonal table in the White House's Cabinet room, Vice President Nixon got a rare burst of applause for his hour-long report on his fortnight behind the Iron Curtain. Secretary of State Christian A. Herter, back from Geneva and scheduled to take off this week for a meeting of the American republics' foreign ministers...
...Stop at Coon Rapids. Khrushchev seemed ready to reciprocate. At a rare, Western-style press conference at the Kremlin, he said that he was going to the U.S. as a "man of peace ... I am prepared to turn my pockets out to show I am harmless." He would, he said, refuse any invitations to visit U.S. military installations. He was not going to the U.S. to find out how strong the U.S. is-"One would be stupid not to know that the U.S. is strong and rich...
...powers between the executive and legislative branches, Ike hinted at a press conference that, though he liked the other provisions, he intended to veto the TVA bill, because the "unwise proviso" would "encroach" on presidential powers-a "very, very serious mistake." What saved the TVA bill was a rare if not unique deal between the President and congressional leaders. House Speaker Sam Rayburn and Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson went to the White House, gave Ike their assurances that if he would sign the bill, they would see to it that Congress passed another bill canceling out the provision...
Curses & Scars. As the children grew up, their view of the outside world-except on extremely rare occasions-was through a hole in the iron door less than an inch in diameter. All day the family worked to help father make poison-from 5 a.m. to dusk. The youngsters got no schooling; their vocabularies were not more than 300 words, and they cursed as a matter of course. Their necks were dotted with small scars where their father had pressed his. knife a bit too hard instilling discipline: no whimpering for more food, no asking...
...which the proprietor hustles ads and copy, cribs items from the old newspapers arriving by train, cuts by hand the pothook stencils of the Urdu script. Then he makes the rounds of Quetta's three print shops, pursuing the lowest print rate of the week. Advertisers are rare, since Quettan merchants prefer to do all their pitching over a hookah at the bazaar, so the publisher must seek revenue from other sources. From Baluchistan's maliks (tribal chieftains), the shrewd editor can usually wangle 100 rupees ($21) for a favorable story, e.g., a puff with picture...