Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Somewhere in this polarization between the homely intimacy of the news from the President's bedside and the vast, impersonal complexity of U.S. life lay the key to a worldwide mystery, the mid-century U.S. The Government, as governments should, expressed the society. In the Administration, there is hardly a man with a political position independent of Eisenhower's. Yet neither the fact of his illness nor the prospect of his retirement jolted the Administration. The web of committees and the pressure of agenda hold it tight. Richard Nixon, who is no second Eisenhower, quite adequately performs...
...Duty' is the shiny iridescent word the President learned at West Point. The President knows and will know where his duty lies." To Ev Dirksen, Ike's duty clearly lies at the head of the ticket on which Dirksen will be running for reelection. But the vast majority of Republican leaders seemed to agree with Vermont National Committeeman Edward Janeway, who said that "under no circumstances" should Eisenhower run again, and Oregon State Chairman Wendell Wyatt, who said: "We would not want to jeopardize his later years." Having already accepted in their own minds the probability that...
Curfew in Rosario. Amid the joyous uproar it was easy to forget that some Argentines were sorry to see Juan Perón go. The grievances recited by General Lonardi-that Peron subverted the laws, violated constitutional rights, mismanaged the economy, packed the courts, burned churches and permitted vast graft-were all true enough. But Peron also gave organized labor, which the old. established parties had never bothered to court, a new sense of dignity and importance-that was the real secret of his success...
...supporting farm prices. The total investment for crop buying and loans is now a staggering $7 billion, a full $1 billion more than last year, even though the Government disposed of $1.3 billion worth of surplus products at a net loss of $800 million in 1955. Yet despite such vast spending, U.S. farmers complain that they are worse off than before...
...U.S.A.}, started in Morocco and toured Africa from "stem to stern, from top to bottom." All told, Gunther reckons, he traveled 40,000 miles in a year, visited 105 towns and "took notes on conversations with 1,503 people." Novelist Cloete confined his search to a single if vast theme: "To clarify our minds about the racial ferment of Africa." Reporter Gunther's more ambitious plan: to tell "all that the ordinary reader needs to know about Africa." Inside Africa is an outsider's story, flung together with globe-trotting glee; The African Giant is an inside...