Word: respected
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Point of Agreement. Just six days before, also in San Diego, the opposition candidate, an entirely different sort of man, had opened an entirely different sort of campaign. William Fife Knowland came not to be liked but to demand respect. Outside San Diego's Russ Auditorium, big, dead-serious Bill Knowland seemed incongruous against the stock California political backdrop-a marimba band, Japanese girls, a flame swallower in vaquero costume. Knowland moved carefully among some 300 people, here pausing for a solemn word, there posing with a tight grin for a photograph, all the while working toward the speaker...
...visit to Riga was interesting in this respect. There, the Russians complain that the Latvians are "discriminating against us." The Latvian language is replacing Russian in many educational institutions and in some state organizations. Result: some Russians are leaving. In Estonia I was told the process is more noticeable; Estonians refuse to speak Russian and turn their backs on the Russians in stores. And the Russians are taking...
...presidential mind (TIME, Jan. 27). On less official but equally close terms are the American Red Cross's president, General Alfred Maximilian Gruenther, speaking as an old comrade in arms, and ex-Treasury Secretary George Humphrey, for whose economic. views the President has enormous respect...
Rotating Nursemaids. Milton earned his elder brother's respect the hard way. Back in Abilene, Kans., where he was born on Sept. 15, 1899, the only bonds uniting the latest arrival to his six older brothers, including Dwight, then almost nine, were those imposed by duty and family. Milton was a sore disappointment to David Jacob and Ida Stover Eisenhower, who yearned for a daughter. "My father was sorry he never had a girl," recalls brother Earl. "He used to sit on our front porch and make friends with every little girl that came by. I know...
Because only about half of Columbia is numbed by the drumming, a furious row commences. The city's ladies fume about Miss Mizzou's putative lack of underclothes, while the C. of C. retorts that nothing has ever been proved in that respect. To critics who question the whole project, the C. of C. men reply that it has great publicity value but give no clear notion of what the publicity is for or what they are selling. The city council hears more arguments, schedules a final meeting for next week to decide whether Missouri's teams...