Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even so. the retreat left Ike explosively touchy about the whole subject of defense spending. At his press conference last week, the touchiness suddenly flared into anger when a newsman asked about Lyndon Johnson's charge that the President was still "freezing" the remainder of the extra $1.2 billion that Congress had voted. Ike denied that he had ever frozen any of the money. At any rate, about $476 million of it is now coming out of cold storage, and Ike may yet have to unfreeze more...
Double Life. Until ill health forced his retirement (a nervous disorder affected his hearing so that high-pitched notes came through to him tremulous and distorted), Ives led a demanding double life: he composed on weekends, during his lunch hours and en route from New York to his weekend retreat in Connecticut. Somehow, he turned out a tremendous quantity of work, only a fraction of which has survived (five symphonies, some violin and piano music, more than 120 songs, and the fine choral work, Lincoln the Great Commoner...
Trujillo is in retreat. Last week the 68-year-old Dominican dictator emptied his desk and closed his office in the National Palace, where-whether officially President or not-he has ruled the country for 30 years. He fired his brother Hector, who for the past eight years has been stand-in President. He sent his son Ramfis, the onetime tabloid-headline playmate of Kim Novak and Zsa Zsa Gabor, off to Geneva to "advise" the Dominican delegation to a trade conference. He bounced two lesser Trujillos from high government jobs. And he named himself chief Dominican delegate...
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo's retreat, by taking him out of stage center, left him less vulnerable to the growing pressures against him. They are: certain censure at the midmonth meeting of the Organization of American States for his attempted assassination of Venezuela's President Rómulo Betancourt, Washington's feeling that he is an embarrassing anachronism, disapproval from the Roman Catholic Church and opposition from the formerly tame middle and upper classes. If necessary, he can retreat further to the safety of the U.N. corridors in Manhattan. If at that point prudence indicates that the chief...
Mort's mother, on the other hand, is an intractable optimist. On this trampolin Mort was raised, an only child, soaking up skepticism and idealism, respect for creativity and contempt for show business. His father's retreat to the tobacco shop in Montreal was soon followed by a new retreat to a government clerkship in Washington, and eventually by his return to Los Angeles, this time as a clerk for the FBI. From 2½ little Mort liked to stand behind the radio and shout through it his own version of the news. At eight he hung around...