Word: recent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Taipei to celebrate his 72nd birthday after an inspection trip of Quemoy, Nationalist China's President Chiang Kai-shek vetoed all hoopla because of recent floods...
Executive Drive. By working hard at it, Symington has managed in recent months to improve his performance as a speechmaker. He still flops sometimes, but in New Castle last week, speaking without notes, he got himself across, livening his talk with touches of humor and personal history that rarely show up in his written speeches. Facing an audience sprinkled with steelworkers, he pointed to his days in the foundry: "I've poured my share of iron. I've stoked open hearths." Said a steelworker: "The guy's O.K. He's been in the mills. He knows...
...assurances of detached neutrality in the event of a Rockefeller-Nixon battle for the G.O.P. nomination. ¶ Adlai Stevenson's ghostly candidacy got a blunt no-confidence vote from a onetime backer. Jack Matthews, president of the Texas-for-Stevenson clubs, told reporters of a recent encounter with Harry Truman, who greeted him, he said, with a snapper: "You're backing a loser." When Matthews disagreed, Truman said flatly: "Well, he is gonna get beat!" "By whom?" asked Matthews. Replied Truman: "Me!" Truman denied that he had ever said any such thing. ¶ In Milwaukee, Averell Harriman...
...Gaulle's triumph was one in the eye for Harold Macmillan, who, in the heat of the recent British election campaign, airily proclaimed that the summit date would be set "within a few days." It was a setback for Ike, who had publicly expressed (as had Khrushchev) a preference for a summit before the end of this year. The quarrel over dates reflected a deeper difference among the Western allies: a disagreement over what summit talks could and should be expected to achieve...
...most fashionable portraitist now active is René Bouché (rhymes with touché). He may also be the best. Last week at Manhattan's Alexander Iolas Gallery, Bouché had on view a brilliant display of what his flickering, sweet-and-sour brush can do. Recent subjects: Truman Capote, Isak Dinesen, Anita Loos, Elsa Maxwell, Mrs. William Paley, the Duchess of Windsor, Lady Astor, the Duchess of Argyll and Alexander Calder...