Word: reed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When would he undergo a second and final post-stroke neurological checkup, already a month overdue? Ike smiled again, admitted that he had been wondering the same thing himself. "I think maybe I should check up," he said. At week's end, having checked, he went to Walter Reed Hospital to take care of the tests and also get rid of a split upper left molar...
...Philip Dunham Reed, 58, board chairman of General Electric Co. for 19 years, will step down at G.E.'s annual meeting April 23, retire when he reaches 60 next year. A handsome man and a fluent speaker, Reed is an engineer (Wisconsin '21) and a lawyer (Fordham '24), became G.E.'s youngest chairman of the board, served in Washington and London in World War II, has since concentrated on G.E.'s international affairs...
...silken women of the East, few have been more diligently trained in eye-fluttering subservience than the reed-slim Tonkinese and Annamese maidens of South Viet Nam. But when President Ngo Dinh Diem proclaimed his nation's independence two years ago, his newly enfranchised countrywomen began to remold their personalities under the leadership of the President's keenly intelligent sister-in-law, beauteous, sloe-eyed Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu. With the help of her enormous charm and an occasional whisk of a sandalwood fan, Madame Ngo got herself elected to South Viet Nam's National Assembly, helped...
...camp never mentions that 4,500,000 U.S. citizens earn their living from foreign trade. Looking for a Republican member of the House Ways and Means Committee to co-sponsor the Administration bill, the White House had to reach past three ardent Republican protectionists-New York's Daniel Reed. Ohio's Thomas Jenkins, Pennsylvania's Richard Simpson-to trap the fourth-ranking Republican, New Jersey's Robert Kean, and he was far from eager...
When Belgian Instrument Maker Adolphe Sax stuck a reed into a conical brass tube and patented the hybrid in 1846, he contributed a new instrument to the military band. In time his saxophone traveled across the Atlantic, became a mainstay of jazz. But the saxophone has always had its strict classical disciples. Last week one of the best and most influential of them, France's Marcel Mule, made his U.S. debut with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and convincingly demonstrated just how good the serious alto sax can sound...