Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...NATO leaders. He had recaptured the diplomatic initiative and restored the cold war perspective in his reply to the U.S.S.R.'s Bulganin (TIME, Jan. 20). He had gone far, in his State of the Union message, toward bolstering the public confidence and military energy of the U.S. His special farm and economic messages to Congress carried hard, specific recommendations for bolstering the U.S. economy (see below...
...Aiken had wanted the Administration to make a special exception in the new program for dairy farmers, but Benson said no.) As the committee members closed in, Chairman Ellender, unable to conceal his delight, looked at Aiken and broadly winked. Not until almost 6 o'clock was Benson allowed to complete his statement. By then all but two Senators, after having their say to the press table, had gone home...
Broken Logjam. Less than a year after the Denver coronary President Eisenhower underwent surgery for ileitis at Washington's Walter Reed hospital. Hagerty set up a special phone connection outside the operating room, had the report of a successful operation to reporters three minutes after the surgeons had finished and 16 minutes before the President was wheeled back to his hospital room. In 36 hours Hagerty held 14 press conferences, but he generally kept newsmen and doctors apart, was by no means so lavish with medical details as in Denver. Says Hagerty: "A presidential heart attack is the property...
...recall the time he edited the speech of a rival politician by indicating with the muzzle of his pistol the lines to be deleted, he has slowly built up increasingly solid support for his policies. Nine months ago Khalil felt unable to sign up for U.S. aid when U.S. Special Ambassador James P. Richards offered it under the Eisenhower Doctrine. But last month he announced acceptance of U.S. technical aid under the U.S. Mutual Security Program. And the Sudan's cotton crop, which Khalil refused to mortgage to the Russians for arms, is now moving well on Western markets...
Actually, White wanted to turn out a special sort of housewife. The "home arts," he insisted, should be a part of the liberal arts, and not just a viewing of the universe as an "infinite series of identical and isolated fruit salads." He gave his students a thorough grounding in literature, art and history, brought to his campus such teachers as Composer Darius Milhaud, Author (The Friendly Persuasion) Jessamyn West and Music Critic Alfred Frankenstein. Since the career of the average woman, White argued, is to raise a family, why not prepare her for it while at the same time...