Word: vip
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Moose, fraternal leaders blame home TV, the automobile, the country club for the new apathy among the brethren. "The young people want something a little faster," admits Odd Fellow Edward McCarty of Lamed, Kans. (pop. 4,447). The lodge has lost its old appeal of exclusiveness and its local VIP leaders, e.g., the town bankers. Says a Missouri Mason: "Men just won't go out to see their mailman drone through a meeting." Even members' funerals, once a must for most orders, get scant attendance. Commented one Knights of Pythias bigwig in Birmingham: "The brothers just...
Eight hours after the operation, still groggy from the anesthesia, Mamie had a visitor. Carrying a bouquet of "Mamie Pink" carnations, President Eisenhower paid a half-hour visit to the same three-room VIP suite where he convalesced last year from his operation for ileitis. He spent most of the time talking to the doctors, reported later at his press conference that Mrs. Eisenhower "medically [was] doing splendidly." (There was no sign of malignancy.) But, he added with a grin, "this does not mean . . . that her disposition is necessarily so good...
...mayor's action so infuriated the State Department that it promptly said that henceforth the U.S. Government will handle all welcoming arrangements for VIP arrivals in New York...
Sales competition was bringing down the price of family inboards to meet the outboards. Carlisle tagged its 17-ft. Aqua-Queen cruiser with new compact Fageol VIP 35-h.p. engine at $1,995. Ulrichsen priced its 21-ft. Sea Skiff with twin 60-h.p. Chris Craft engines at $2,895. For do-it-yourselfers, there were kits ranging from an 8-ft. pram at $52 to a 23-ft. cabin cruiser for $879, about half what each would cost assembled...
Relaxed in the air-conditioned VIP waiting room at Panama's Tocumen Airport, ex-Strongman Juan Perón affably thanked the Panamanian government for "eight good months" and sent his warmest regards to "the humble and suffering, and all the workers" of Panama. Upstairs, the former Argentine dictator's shapely secretary, Dancer Isabel Martínez, stopped sipping a Coke long enough to pose for photographers and describe her boss as "an extraordinary man in all respects." Then Perón, 60, and Isabel, 23, climbed aboard a plane for Venezuela...