Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...75th birthday (see PEOPLE), Lyndon landed carefully. Massachusetts, after all, is the nesting ground of a formidable front runner named John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Senator Kennedy met his majority leader at Boston's airport, later introduced him to 800 diners in the cream and gold Somerset Hotel ballroom, cagily saw him out of town again. Before the homefolk Jack took only one good-humored peck at Lyndon : "Some people refer to Senator Johnson as the next President of the United States, but I see no reason why he should take a demotion." Smiling broadly, Johnson bandied back. Said...
...Colorado Springs, President Eisenhower last week tabbed four-star General Lawrence S. (for Sherman) Kuter, 53, Air Force commander in the Pacific. A brigadier general at 36-he was then the youngest general* in the nation's armed forces -slim, mustached West Pointer ('27) Larry Kuter saw duty in Britain, North Africa and the Pacific during World War II, was the first boss (1948-51) of the Military Air Transport Service...
...Stryguine seemed anxious to make friends with Westerners in Burma. He did; but his new friends noticed that a certain tenseness gnawed at his easy affability. Said one: "I felt from the first this man was not the usual Soviet conformist. He had eyes and a brain; he saw things and understood them...
...plot bore the preposterous name of "Operation Cocktail," and the people behind it, said the minister, included all classes and were all "most confused." Among those arrested: a priest, nine army officers, 22 civilians. Behind this threat to the 27-year dictatorship of Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, police also saw the features of flamboyant General Humberto Delgado, who in last year's election got a surprising 23% of the votes, even with Salazar's men counting the ballots...
...medium that once saw Bishop Sheen and Arthur Godfrey nominated for the same award ("Outstanding Personality of the Year") had changed not a bit. The academy this time managed to match lightfooted Fred Astaire with Actor Christopher Plummer and 14-year-old Robert Crawford in the race for "Best Single Performance by an Actor." Winner: Hoofer Astaire. (Astaire also won eight other awards, exactly 27 lbs. of Emmys, all for his memorable song-and-dance show last October.) The catalogue of categories seemed endless. On and on it went, until one irritated critic was moved to ask: "Is there...