Word: stevensons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...After a one-day visit to Huron, S.D., to see his invalid mother and drop into his brother's drugstore (where he collected, as Brother Ralph put it, "enough bathroom supplies for six months"), Humphrey last week flew into Manhattan for conferences with Ambassador to the U.N. Adlai Stevenson and lunch with members of the Security Council. One evening Humphrey and his wife Muriel saw Robert Preston in Ben Franklin in Paris, a musical show about the diplomatic old American who charmed the French into helping the U.S. in the infancy of its independence...
...NEWS SPECIAL (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* A memorial tribute to the late President Kennedy, retracing the main events of his Administration. The many off-screen narrators include Adlai Stevenson, McGeorge Bundy, Hubert Humphrey, Allen Dulles and Theodore Sorensen...
...against 359 papers, with 9,000,000 circulation for Goldwater. Johnson's percentage of 42.4% came nowhere near the 67% registered by Eisenhower in the magazine's 1952 poll, but it was a long way from the mere 14% support that went that year to Democrat Adlai Stevenson -who understandably raised the charge of a "one-party press." This year's tabulation demolished Stevenson's accusation with statistical authority...
Avedon is possessed of a lens that is a subtler, cruder instrument of distortion than any caricaturist's pencil. Washington Hostess Perle Mesta appears whiskered and wattle-throated; Dwight Eisenhower looks like his own corpse simple people getting married at City Hall look bloated, ugly, foolish; Adlai Stevenson looks tired, disillusioned, a little sly; Playwright Arthur Miller looks scrufty, torn by anxiety...
Although he has been fascinated with parties and elections since his college days, Portlist prefers to stay on the fringes of active politics. He has never run for office or campaigned formally for any candidate. But he has attended every Democratic National Convention his devotion to Adlai Stevenson earned Mr. Portlist nationwide attention; while Senator Eugene McCarthy was making his famous plea for Stevenson's nomination, the gallery chair on which Portlist was jumping up and down collapsed, nearly pitching him over the balcony railing...