Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like our weather?" a British newsman piped up as flashbulbs popped and dignitaries shook hands. Replied Vice President Richard Nixon, who with Wife Pat had arrived in London in a foul fog on a four-day good-will trip to Britain: "We have fog in San Francisco and smog in Los Angeles, so it's a lot like California weather." At once London's Daily Mail reported that Nixon had "managed to make everyone feel that he would have been deeply disappointed if it had been a clear...
...foreign policy. He called on Winston Churchill, made a little news by disclosing that Churchill had been invited to visit Ike in Washington in May, and might accept. And that night in the 500-year-old Guildhall, where General Eisenhower made his famed 1945 victory speech, Nixon's trip hit a new high...
Ralph J. Rivers, 55, lone member of the House of Representatives. A onetime territorial attorney general, wiry Ralph Rivers has long been a top vote getter in Alaska, was once mayor of Fairbanks, two years ago made a 6,500-mile auto trip to Washington, where he, Gruening and Egan announced themselves as duly elected representatives of the abortive "Alaska Tennessee'' Plan, demanding recognition for Alaska as a state...
...Leightons were chosen for the trip because they were talking with Link-letter when a pre-set alarm rang. "I was speechless," says Leighton. "I've never won anything in my life. I could buy nine out of ten raffle tickets and still lose...
Plans are not definite yet, but the trip will be made some time next year, according to Leighton. At the time of the program the Leightons were visiting their son in California, and on their return from Sweden they will pass through California again for another visit...