Word: tells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...problems, which can come to final decision only on the President's desk, there are broad areas of policy and planning that call for close and carefully planned presidential leadership. In the nation's first Sputnik uneasiness, the President planned a series of five TV talks to tell the people where the U.S. stood and what it had to do. When illness hit, Ike had made only two of the speeches. The third, an appeal for support of the Administration's foreign aid program, was delivered in part by Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell, subbing...
...time the conference ended, Nixon had less than an hour to get to Mohammed's dinner. Standing before television cameras outside the White House, he said over his shoulder to a Secret Service man: "I'm all shaved, so just tell them to lay out the tails and white tie." He made it to the Mayflower Hotel affair almost on time, looking fresh, with an optimistic reply to the question on everyone's mind. Passing Nixon in the reception line, Pakistan's Ambassador Mohammed AH asked about President Eisenhower. "Much better," said Nixon...
...death is, why their father is "sleeping" but will never awake to tease them, or sing to them. Mary no less then they, must become more "grown-up" and realize what this death will mean. She once said her children were "brought up to trust older people when they tell (them) something. . . ." But she had promised Catherine and Rufus the night of Jay's death that he would be home when they awoke...
Inept at the Switch. Jack Kennedy, politician, was-and is-a long way from the likes of Pat Kennedy and Honey Fitz, a fact still resented by some of Boston's old Irish types. Says one: "Tell me, who'd he ever get a job for? When did he ever attend a wake? When did he ever get out and rustle food for a poor starving family? Or raise the money for an undertaker?" In fact, Kennedy is even inept at the "Irish Switch," a maneuver that consists of vigorously shaking one person's hand while talking...
...Requiem for a Heavyweight) Serling to doctor the script. With accomplished Actor Ben Gazzara to play the role, Frankenheimer wanted to expand the part of Stanley, the dead boy's roommate, who makes an effort to stop the fatal roughhouse, then suffers with a conscience-driven urge to tell all. "I want to be conscious of Benny Gazzara every minute," said Frankenheimer. "This is the most creative actor I've ever worked with...