Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week over, the Arabs prepared for their homeward trip. Somehow the presence of the somber child had taken the edge off much of the quibbling produced by the cautious politics and flaring passions that surrounded the King himself. The little prince had indeed stolen the show. The proof, in a sense, lay in the two extra trunks bought in the U.S. by the Arabs, in which will be shipped the plastic toys and doodads that are gifts from American children...
...Grim Reaper." To a correspondent's suggestion that Vice President Nixon's assignments from the White House (as typified by his African trip next month to witness the christening of the Gold Coast colony as the British Commonwealth member of Ghana) were still largely ceremonial, the President replied: "Even if ... Mr. Nixon and I were not good friends, I would still have him in every important conference of government, so that if the grim reaper would find it time to ... remove me from this scene, he is ready to step in without any interruption...
Conference over, Ike resumed desk-clearing, paused to pay a ceremonial goodbye to departing King Saud. But even before Saud was airborne on his trip home to Saudi Arabia, the President himself was winging southward to join Art and George at Thomasville. Stepping out of his plane into balmy weather ("My," commented Mamie Eisenhower, "this sun feels good"), Ike drove to Treasury Secretary George Humphrey's 600-acre plantation, "Milestone." Next day he climbed into a mule-drawn hunting wagon and to the soothing clop-clop-clop of two white mules, drove to the dry brush where the quail...
...educators arrive in Washington, D.C., and will spend ten days meeting officials in the capital before splitting up into small groups to visit various American universities. Their trip is sponsored by the U.S. State Department, under the International Educational Exchange Program, and is financed from payments by the Government of India on a 1951 American wheat loan...
Graubard said that the visit is a result of the recommendations of a "similar but smaller team which made an exploratory trip last year." He explained that last year's group was able to observe General Education classes at Harvard for only four days...