Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Where Adams is brusque and businesslike, Persons is completely amiable, can always find time for the human touch. Where Adams-by virtue of his four years in the New Hampshire Statehouse -is "Governor" to all but a few close associates, Persons is "Jerry" to nearly all Washington, "Burt" to his family, and "Slick" to old Army friends. (There is a dispute about whether the "Slick" came from the stuff he put on his hair or from the smooth way he handled Congressmen as an Army legislative liaison man.) Where Adams was President Eisenhower's closest professional colleague, Major General...
...clash that occurred on De Gaulle's visit to Conakry last month. Angered by Sekou Touré's public criticism of the new constitution, De Gaulle refused to dine with the Guinean Premier. More important, probably, is Touré's vaulting ambition. He is in close touch with President Kwame Nkrumah of independent Ghana and has a mystic concept of his role in the future greatness of his continent. "All Africa is my problem," he boasts. A Marxist-trained unionist himself, Sekou Touré, 36, envisions a Guinean government in which labor unions will be the prime...
...bits a head. "Shake it, gal!" they yelled, happily ignorant that Dancer Anita Lopez was a bewigged male. On down the back end (the sideshows) of the carny, they plunked their dimes down for Jennie Thurman, "The Girl in the Iron Lung." (Healthy Jennie, 17, "did have a touch of polio" once when she was a little girl, insists her father, foreman at the Ferris wheel...
...TOUCH OF THE POET is the only extant play (the author tore up the others) of that final series in which Eugene O'Neill meant to spell out the dark, brooding mysteries of the human tragedy...
This dilemma was dealt with by the CEP, which suggested that the various Departments and Houses co-operate in offering voluntary sessions which would would make non-Honors juniors "interested in the aspects of their field of concentration which touch them as men and as members of a community." This suggestion, which to many appeared to be a plea for some type of sugar-coated vocational training, at least had the merit of supporting the abolition of compulsory non-Honors junior tutorial...