Word: traveled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pals that Harry Truman gathered around him in the White House were among the headliners in the Truman Administration scandals. Brigadier General Harry Vaughan, the President's ever-present sidekick, began as early as 1945, helping a perfume manufacturer get around wartime travel restrictions to Europe and receiving, for his trouble, a deep freezer. Also on the deep-freezer list was White House Appointments Secretary Matthew Connelly-convicted only this year of tax fraud conspiracy during his White House days. In 1947 Truman denounced grain speculators for driving prices higher, soon discovered that his personal physician, Brigadier General Wallace...
...this week, worn by his long vigil at the bedside of his dying father (see MILESTONES), Nixon was preparing to launch probably the most strenuous political campaign any Republican has ever waged. Flying in a chartered DC-6B, accompanied by his wife and a four-man staff, he will travel 14,136 miles, visit 32 states, make 50 speeches in three weeks. What he learns on this swing will do much to determine the size and shape of the Republican campaign during October and the first week in November...
...gasoline used in the country now flows down from the north in caravans of 20 to 50 Russian gas trucks to sell for a giveaway 25? a gallon in Kabul. Exports (furs, fruit, carpets) that used to stop and go at the Khyber Pass with every Pakistani whim now travel north to more cer tain Soviet markets. U.S. officials estimate that there are already several thousand Soviet do-gooders spreading their blessings in Afghanistan. Last week Kabul's only modern hotel was jammed with members of the 200-man Russian delegation to the city's international trade fair...
...bathing suit and make straightway for Waikiki beach to lie in the sun. But not Henry J. Kaiser, 74. As a vacationing tourist two years ago, he took one look at Waikiki beach and decided things could be improved. Said Kaiser : "I figure just about everybody wants to travel to Hawaii, but facilities have not kept pace." Since then, Pacesetter Kaiser (29 Kaiser companies, $775 million in annual sales) has been having the time of his life playing with his newest toy, a multimillion-dollar playground called Hawaiian Village. This week Kaiser announced he was starting construction of a bright...
Fleischman and wife Barbara lost no time in wading in, are now sopping up Mexican culture, have started buying Mexican art, and have struck up an acquaintance with Artist Rufino Tamayo. In his way, Collector Fleischman is proving to be almost as good propaganda as his collection. He will travel with it to nine other Latin American countries in the next 20 months...