Word: tripped
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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...
Milton will spend this week in Panama, Honduras and Costa Rica, will fly next week to Nicaragua, and then take a side trip to Puerto Rico (for Commonwealth Day celebrations). After last stops in El Salvador and Guatemala, he will fly home Aug. 1. This week he was well into his Panama business meeting with President Ernesto de la Guardia, and surrounded by such security that each day's doings were not announced until the morning of the day they were to take place-and his routes to and from his appointments were not released at all. There...
...Zealand's beekeeping Mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary, conqueror of highbrow (29,002 ft.) Mount Everest, the fact was grim and rocky: a hill he cannot climb. On a vacation trip to the 7,030-ft. Scott Knob in his homeland, Sir Edmund tried for the second time in 14 years to reach its lowly top, was forced to turn back 500 ft. from victory by an impassable rock face. Daunted only for the nonce, he muttered a plucky Hillary challenge: "I'll be back...
...incentive selling: getting the entire company, from the president to the janitor, to take part in sales promotions. Denver's Ringsby Truck Lines brought all of its employees in on a campaign to win new customers, got 3,121 new accounts by offering cash prizes and a trip to Las Vegas. Total cost...
...George tries to remarry his divorced wife. Turned down, he turns to a much younger woman for whom the old boy is a catch of convenience. Married, he discovers that a marriage of male habit and female indifference is not enough to keep off the evening chill. After a trip to Italy, his wife recites a simple fact of life to him: "George, you know you're getting too old for this sort of thing-it's not good for you; you look ghastly." But Author Lessing does not play this situation for sexual repartee. Her story...