Word: seene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...minutes old when the United Press slipped Ike a piece of copy on the ouster of his old wartime colleague Marshal Zhukov from the Presidium and the Central Committee of the Communist Party. Ike sent thanks to the reporter, settled back to watch Army win. Reporters had not seen Ike so cheerful and relaxed in a long time. An old Army wife explained it easily: "He's back with his own people...
...happy, hungry chase. The State Department had just kicked downstairs affable Victor Purse, 38, deputy chief of protocol, for accepting a sort of grandiose tip from Arabia's King Saud. The gift: a $3,000 Oldsmobile convertible, tendered to Purse's wife after Purse had seen Saud to the diplomatic door by flying back to Saudi Arabia with him after last February's state visit...
...presidential endorsement for Nixon ("they're all good men"), but he gave notably shorter shrift to others. Said he of retired General Alfred Gruenther: "I don't know him well." And of California's Senator William Knowland and Hardy Perennial Harold Stassen: "I haven't seen them campaigning...
Harry S. Truman was plunking his give-'em-hell keyboard again last week-only this time he was putting national defense to political ragtime. In one of his jazziest now-when-I-was-President moods, Harry recalled how he had seen the U.S. long-range missile program lagging, called in Chrysler Corp. President K. T. Keller, made him a missiles czar, with "instructions to knock heads together whenever it was necessary to break through bottlenecks." After that, claimed Truman, the missile program made "encouraging progress"-until, of course, the Eisenhower Administration ruined...
...office of J. Robert Oppenheimer '26, director of the Institute, a secretary replied to a question concerning the unusual bustle of activity in the building. "Yes, isn't it wonderful? Yang and Lee won the Nobel Prize. Haven't you seen the front page picture in the Herald Trib...