Word: truman
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Planned Parenthood. Although he is a registered Democrat, Seaborg has been politically passive, served both Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower as an adviser. In 1959 the AEC gave him the $50,000 Enrico Fermi Award-the highest honor the Government can bestow on an atomic scientist. Last January, four days before he took office as President, John Kennedy appointed Seaborg chairman of the AEC-the highest federal administrative post a U.S. scientist has ever attained...
...just half an hour, Kennedy was airborne again, on the way to spend the night at Kerr's lavish (13 bathrooms) ranch house. Next morning the President flew back to Washington, where he entertained Harry and Bess Truman overnight at the White House. Then he was off again, to New York and New Jersey. At La Guardia Airport, Mayor Robert Wagner, growing increasingly nervous about this week's election, was waiting on the apron to greet him. The President's endorsement was in a mimeographed handout, which he did not read: "I want to take this opportunity...
...24th Infantry Division in West Germany. Walker was accused by the Overseas Weekly, an independent, American-owned newspaper, of indoctrinating his troops with the far-right tenets of the John Birch Society. In addition, the paper charged that Walker had once publicly stated that former President Harry Truman was "definitely pink," and had pinned the leftist label on Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, former Secretary of State Dean Acheson and U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson...
...Goodie Knight into California's gubernatorial mansion, ran the National Professional Committee for Eisenhower and Nixon in 1952 "to rally the people against the dangers of socialism." and earned $400,000 for their biggest battle-a four-year, $4,700,000 American Medical Association campaign that killed Harry Truman's compulsory national health insurance program...
Breakfast at Tiffany's. Audrey Hepburn's soignée expense accountess may not quite be Holly, but she plays Truman Capote's heroine with grace and fluent...