Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This is Harry S. Truman's year in the honorary degree sweepstakes; no one can doubt it. Today, the tenth anniversary of the CRIMSON's first prediction that the former President would reap an LL.D. the annual guessing game about the most mystical of Commencement ceremonies once again begins...
...always have to guess; the canny Corporation which has the job of awarding the honoraries ("increasing the sum of human happiness," President Lowell called it, pithily) isn't telling, and even their wives and daughters don't know. But there are certainties: Truman; Adlai Stevenson, who for the first time in quite a while is not too controversial; Dean Rusk--or more likely Robert McNamara, who used to teach at the Business School...
...with an artificial waterfall at one end. a 45-ft. swimming pool, and barbecue equipment capable of roasting three steers at once. As signs of his influence beyond the boundaries of Pecos, Estes displayed on the walls of his office autographed photos of President Kennedy, Vice President Johnson, Harry Truman...
...Greece 15 years ago, the existing government was reactionary and a lot of people screamed that we could not win with it. But we did. and the political situation took care of itself." Says Averell Harriman. the key Washington official in shaping U.S. policy in Southeast Asia: "The Truman Doctrine was designed to help people who were attacked by Communist guerrillas in Greece. With our help the Greeks were able to throw them out-to conquer them. Today Greece is playing an important part in the Atlantic community...
Died. Major General Ralph Emerson Truman. 81, U.S.N.G. (ret.), testy first cousin of Harry, a onetime Spanish-American War corporal and World War I captain who, as an ardent week-end warrior, never forgave the Regular Army for relieving his command of the 35th Division, a Missouri-Kansas National Guard outfit he helped form, on the eve of World Wrar II; of a heart attack; in Kansas City...