Word: reed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Operating Room 6 of Walter Reed General Hospital, a massive, bowl-shaped lamp bathed the operating table in its shadowless glare. Bending over the table with hawklike attentiveness were the four surgeons in their blue-green gowns, white skullcaps and masks, tersely and softly directing a team of 20 physicians, nurses and technicians. On the table, his breathing regular as he fell into a deep sleep, lay Dwight David Eisenhower, 65, 34th President of the U.S., undergoing major surgery to relieve an obstruction of the small intestine. Nearly two hours later, with a steel-grey dawn just breaking over Washington...
...Slender, handsome, kind-hearted and a spectacular orator, he is the most popular man in Indonesia. No Indonesian can outtalk him; he has survived innumerable revolts, more than a dozen Cabinet changes, a restive army. He has skimmed John Dewey, Marx, Lenin, Jefferson, Lincoln, John Reed, Otto Bauer, and is still tingling over the discoveries. Dotes on American history, but at times comes up with such historical whoppers as: "There was lack of law and order in America for 60 years following the Revolution." Enjoys painting, good conversation, the company of pretty women. Divorced his first wife...
...Democrats have made the American farmer's mind a dumping ground for other people's garbage, Reed Benson, charged last night. They have appealed to his selfish interests to the detriment of economically sound policy, the son of the present Secretary of Agriculture said...
...robustness of his health was established last week by a two-day, head-to-toe physical examination conducted by some two dozen of Walter Reed's top doctors and technicians and the President's personal physician, Major General Howard McC. Snyder. At its end, in a startlingly frank and detailed report that more than anything else illustrated Dwight Eisenhower's insistence on the people's right to know, they gave the world almost an organ-by-organ look at what they had found (see next page...
...Reed Benson, son of Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson, will speak tonight in Emerson F at 8 p.m. on GOP farm policy...