Word: swing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Acting as the eyes and ears of his brother Dwight, Johns Hopkins University President Milton Eisenhower flew south from Washington last week for a fact-finding and good-will swing through six nations of Central America. The trip, originally scheduled for June 15, was postponed lest Milton meet a backwash of the violence that greeted Vice President Nixon in Lima and Caracas...
...opposition National Action Party (P.A.N.) and its candidate, Textilemaker Luis Alvarez, had hoped that the new women voters would swing to the pro-Roman Catholic P.A.N. Instead, the women looked carefully over their husbands' shoulders to find the right place to make their mark; the men were as fervently convinced as ever that P.R.I, allegiance and patriotism are one and the same thing. The only glimmer of hope for P.A.N. was in a few tight, undecided local races that might boost the P.A.N. total in Congress (from the present six seats in the House of Deputies, none...
Since that incident there has been no cool between Police Commissioner Kennedy and the New York City Youth Board. Says one board official bitterly: "All Kennedy wants is to swing the big stick, arrest more kids, get more cops, bust up gangs. Where's his respect for the human being?" Contends another critic, Columbia University's New York School of Social Work Professor Alfred J. Kahn: "The conduct he encourages in his officers in effect challenges the objectives of our statutes and substitutes his personal philosophy for that...
...swing-your-partner" devotees, there will be three square dances. Two will be "small" ones, on Tuesday evenings of July 15 and 29, and will be held at the Union from 8 to 10 P.M. Herb Gaudreau will call the dances. No privilege cards; no fee. These dances are designed, Miss Williston notes, for the "step-sitters...
...best way to nurture a draft was to hold the popularity of the masses. And at the moment the best way to be popular is to stay on good terms with Venezuela Communists, who claim 26,000 members and are riding the crest of the post-dictatorship leftward swing. Larrazábal, it seemed, intended to do just that. Said the admiral at his press conference: "Maybe I am naive. But I feel our Communism is a different Communism. Because of his rich patriotic heritage, no Venezuelan would accept orders from abroad." Such full-gushing benediction of Venezuela...