Word: vermonter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...storm over Asia to the dimensions of one of her teacups. The conflict between Communist China and the West is symbolized by the MacLeods of Raleigh, Vt. Gerald MacLeod, although not a Communist, lives in Peking and is president of its Communist-run university. Wife Elizabeth MacLeod lives in Vermont with their son Rennie and her father-in-law. Old Mr. MacLeod, who was once adviser to the Boy Emperor (1909-12) and took a Chinese woman to wife, has gone Confucian in the saddest way. Mrs. MacLeod calls him "Baba" ("It is easier to say than Father...
What with Baba trying to be Chinese in Vermont, and Rennie struggling to forget his ancestral Chinese quarter, Mrs. MacLeod is having quite a time of it. In a letter from Peking, husband Gerald writes that he loves her and all that, but, since the Communists dislike his non-Sinic connections, he is obliged to take another wife. The new Chinese wife also writes to Vermont ("Dear Elder Sister . . ."). Throughout, Mrs. MacLeod proves to be so quilted in sensibility as to resemble a carnivorous tea cosy...
...stock averages tumbled 4.91 points in an hour, but increasingly optimistic medical bulletins soon had Wall Street-and everybody else-feeling better. Major John Eisenhower, driving to Florida for a vacation, was told it would be all right to keep going. White House Staff Chief Sherman Adams, visiting in Vermont, was told that he could stay in New England the rest of the week, as planned...
...that committeemen. already impressed with Ike's speech of the night before, gushed a remarkable torrent of praise. Even Arkansas' Democrat William Fulbright. who had often delighted in baiting Dulles, called the revised aid program "wise and imaginative." As Dulles flushed redder than his wine-colored tie, Vermont's Republican George Aiken topped it all off. "I want to compliment you." he said, "on the compliments you have received...
...South Dakota's Karl Mundt, Minnesota's Edward Thye and New Hampshire's Norris Cotton, plus a dozen Ikemen: Vermont's George Aiken, Colorado's Gordon Allott, Connecticut's Prescott Bush, Kansas' Frank Carlson, New Jersey's Clifford Case and Alexander Smith, Kentucky's John Sherman Cooper, New York's Irving Ives and Jacob Javits, Utah's Arthur Watkins and Wisconsin's Alexander Wiley...