Word: truman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...built at least six centuries ago, remodeled 400 years later. Napoleon slept there; his canopy bed, lengthened to accommodate the man-sized Emperor Alexander I of Russia during his stay, is still there. More recent guests include former West German President Theodor Heuss, Henry Ford II, and Margaret Truman. The hotel was recently expanded to 40 rooms, each furnished differently. Prices range from $7.50 for a double to $11.25 for a suite...
...Harry. He spoke at lunch next day to patrons of the Phoenix Neurological Institute, rapped the Kennedy Administration, adding "The more I think about it the more I think Harry Truman will go down in history as one of the greater Presidents."Off to the airport soon afterward, Barry flew his Bonanza to a commencement address at the New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell. This time the subject was again patriotism and conservatism, with a generous portion of praise for an old Democrat named Thomas Jefferson...
around the world. Parker's shapely"51" pens signed the Japanese and the German surrender agreements after World War II, the Korean cease-fire at Panmunjom and the Japanese Peace Treaty. Truman, Attlee and Stalin used a Parker to sign the Potsdam agreement, and Khrushchev flew home with a sup ply of Parkers after his shoe-slapping U.N. visit three years ago. In develop ing nations, where the fight against il literacy is constantly creating the need for more pens, a Parker pen is one of the status symbols of the educated...
Near the new Athens Hilton stands an 11-ft. bronze replica of Harry S. Truman, 79, commemorating U.S. aid during Greece's Communist troubles of 1947. But some Greek critics found their latest art treasure "in bad taste...
...Truman, said one, "when statues of great men of Athens like Pericles are still missing?" Out in Independence, Mo., Harry seemed to agree: "I have never been in favor of erecting statues of people still alive. I told them that when they started this thing-you never know when you'll have to tear it down...