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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nixon riots last May. Kubitschek had written to President Eisenhower suggesting a presidential get-together. Later he proposed "Operation Pan-American" for a long-run strengthening of the hemisphere's bonds by planned economic development. Dulles studied Kubitschek's proposals on the long flight south, and also read reports of the reception being planned for him by leftists and nationalists. Flocks of vultures were to be released, roadblocks set up, demonstrations staged by professional Reds with signs reading "Dulles will not pass." But as he rode under an overcast sky into downtown Rio from the international airport...
...rule. The tricolored sash of office flashing across his starched shirt, Dr. Alberto Lleras Camargo, 52, stood stiffly through an enthusiastic 21-gun salute that shattered a Capitol window. He listened gravely to aging (69), ailing Conservative Senate President Laureano Gómez, who struggled to his feet to read the oath of office. Lleras Camargo answered, "I swear," and democracy was back in business...
...Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson) published. Working ten to twelve hours daily seven days a week, backed up by four busy secretaries and a research assistant, Hoover even mixed business with a favorite recreation, trolling for the bait-shy Florida bonefish. "You have time between bites," he explained, "to read Government documents." Presumably, the ex-President's year would have been busier yet-if he had not squandered two weeks abed after a gall bladder operation...
...Flat Rock, N.C. for a benefit honoring a nearby little-theater group, Poet Carl Sandburg, 80, lofted a missile seemingly aimed at San Francisco's Latin Quarter and Manhattan's MacDougal Street: "Poets ain't doin' so good. They are cursed by obfuscators. They read their poems to each other. They certify each other...
...Vegas (pop. 53,690-20% Catholics) trouble arose not over pictures but over personal appearances: the chorines in three of the town's gilded night cages-the Dunes, the Stardust and El Rancho Vegas-glided about with their breast feathers completely plucked. In a message read this week from every Catholic pulpit in Nevada, Reno's Bishop Robert J. Dwyer gave the warning "that all Catholics are strictly forbidden by the divine law itself to have any part in entertainment which is of its nature indecent, suggestive or calculated to excite thoughts or actions contrary to the Sixth...