Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trip will give him his first good line on battery strength, and his pitchers and catchers are the big questions on this year's team. Of his hurlers, only Dom Repetto has had much past experience, and the other moundsmen wil have to come through if the team's veteran strength elsewhere is to bring a successful season. A replacement must also be found for last year's catcher, Bing Crosby...
...partisan lines. Moreover, up to week's end, the Vice President and Secretary of State both were far away, creating -until Dulles' return from Australia on Sunday-a top-echelon vacuum in the capital. But there was general agreement, even in Congress, that the President's trip was proper to rid himself of a cantankerous head cold...
Rounding out the third week of his goodwill trip, Vice President Richard Nixon left behind the steaming, well-toured African continent, winged across the Mediterranean and touched down in Rome. The city lay gleaming and sparkling in the spring sunshine as the Nixon party settled into hotel suites and began once again the round of official functions...
Weather Eye. This birthday party was one of a mighty few purely unofficial occasions on the trip, for through the long tour Nixon rarely allowed himself to lose sight of his diplomatic job. And-as correspondents began to discover toward the end of the tour-the job was far more than handshakes and baby-patting. On his seven-nation (Morocco, Ghana, Liberia, Uganda, Ethiopia, Sudan, Libya) African go-round, he held down-to-earth closed-door conferences with African leaders, learned how to juggle tactfully the usual requests for foreign aid, came away each time satisfied that he had done...
...royal government, and the princely Premier had shown signs of falling for it. The Reds kept pressing. Souphanouvong argued: "To be really neutral, Laos should accept economic aid from China as a counterweight to American aid." Royal Premier Souvanna Phouma, who had come back empty-handed from a trip to Peking last year, replied: "How could we accept what has not been offered to us?" He knew better than anyone else that almost the whole Laotian budget, save for some revenue from legal and illegal opium exports, comes from...