Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bolstered by his hope that Secretary Dulles may recover sufficiently to return to office, President Eisenhower has not given any serious thought to a successor. But those who know the President best-and who also fear that the problem of the successorship might soon become urgent-see these as the top five names...
Last week the St. Louis Post-Dispatch uncovered a Wimpy-like scheme thought up by tough, well-tailored Harold Gibbons, boss of Teamster Local 688 (9,000 members) and idea man for Teamster Czar Jimmy Hoffa. A free spender who ran through $63,000 in hotel tabs and other expenses in three years, Gibbons has set up a Local 688 charitable foundation to channel money to the United Fund and other St. Louis charities. Where is the money coming from? As new Local 688 contracts are negotiated, each employer will be required to kick in a dollar...
...base of Ecuador's boom is a ten-year record of political stability, starting with Galo Plaza Lasso, 53, onetime University of California fullback, who won the presidency in 1948. The secret ingredient is democracy, both of thought and action. Coupled with the brains to take advantage of Ecuador's rich soil, it brought the boom. As the dread Panama disease, a killing blight, ravaged older banana plantations through Central America, Galo Plaza spent every dollar his government could spare to open up the virgin coastal plain, where rich topsoil lay three feet thick. In ten years Ecuador...
Amidst a dinkum welcome to Australia, at the start of a five-month "crusade for Christ," Evangelist Billy Graham was asked whether he thought his revival gatherings would have a lasting effect, responded with disarming realism: "The effects of a bath don't last long, but you need it, and it's good...
...well received in Europe, but Pianist Pleasants' lack of temperament and color made her unsuited to the more popular romantics. Then her husband played a hunch. Henry Pleasants, onetime music critic for the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin and since 1952 a Foreign Service officer in Austria and Germany, thought that Virginia's real forte might be the harpsichord, which lacks dynamic range (it sounds almost the same whether whacked or stroked) and mainly requires delicate, precise fingering. It also requires good care: the slightest humidity change in the Pleasants' Bonn home makes their instrument go sharp in summer...