Word: turned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Concerning Esma Jackson's "closeup" of Mrs. Eisenhower [March 17]: it might turn out to be unfortunate that Reporter Jackson overheard Mamie mention Ike's favorite tune [When You and I Were Young, Maggie]. Perhaps by the time he leaves office, he will have learned to hate it as F.D.R. did Home on the Range...
...interests of helping farm-belt Republicans get elected this fall, he hoped the President would sign-and he favored a petition to that effect. That did it: the Republicans voted by show of hands to urge Ike to sign the bill that he had called a "180° turn in the wrong direction...
...Kids Have Eyes." How could these expensive new monuments to good intentions turn into new slums? Chiefly because admission to low-rent projects is controlled by the city, which sets an arbitrary income level for tenant families. As they rise on the economic ladder, the better-off families must move out, making room at the bottom for those whose economic and social levels are ever lower. There the gangs thrive, for as one Youth Board official says: "Wherever you have great population mobility and disrupted population areas, gangs spring up to replace the broken stability of the group." Adds...
While photographers and newsmen crowded his swank Faubourg St.-Germain apartment, Cuevas briskly flourished an épée in front of a gilt mirror-or as briskly as his rheumatism, poor eyesight and recently broken leg would permit. Lifar, in turn, exhibited his thrusts and parries to newsmen at a local fencing school, where he was practicing. At a chance meeting in a TV studio, brutal words were exchanged. Cried Lifar: "I feel sorry for you; you can hardly see. But I'll make you dance a minuet to my épée." Replied Cuevas: "Your handkerchief...
...relaxing its ties with London, the new nation (see color pages) seems certain to become increasingly neighborly with the U.S., trading more and more goods and culture. Soon, cheap jet-airliner travel should turn the islands into a favorite winter and spring playground...