Word: velt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President-elect Eisenhower's task is to preserve the valid legacies of the Roos velt era and at the same time eliminate the waste, extravagance and bureaucrats with which many have become encumbered. In short, he must introduce businesslike management to what has become, since World War II, the world's biggest business...
...Cover] Heat had shimmered in Bombay since dawn, and hung on in the stifling dusk after the sunlight's glare was gone. But a thousand patient Hindus stood tight-packed and sweating before the Taj Mahal hotel to see the American Widow Roose- velt. They were rewarded by a strange tableau. A gleaming open automobile awaited the famous visitor. But when she climbed in, she did not sit down. She faced the applauding crowd, bowed her head and folded her hands before her in the Hindu posture of namqskar. It was a gesture which would have horrified and infuriated...