Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...VIRGINIA MERLINO Los Angeles...
Word of the Israeli attack was flashed to the President in mid-air as he returned from his one-day campaign trip to Florida and Virginia. Dulles meanwhile conferred with British and French diplomats to prepare the way for U.N. action. In Manhattan U.N. delegates conferred with Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold. On landing in Washington the President went into immediate conference with Dulles at the White House...
...same time, Eisenhower's campaign was steadily expanding. His decision to speak this week in Virginia, Texas, Oklahoma and Tennessee (as well as Florida and Pennsylvania, which were already leaning his way) indicated that he is ready to battle right down to the line for at least four states that a few weeks ago were rated solid for Stevenson. From state after state came reports that Ike was holding, or even increasing, his vote among women. The much-publicized farm revolt appeared moribund. Negro shifts to Eisenhower were indicated in such states as New York, Maryland and Delaware. Pollster...
...MONARCH (378 pp.) -Virginia Cowles-Harper...
...even tell a King from a Knave." Most of Edward's biographers have had the same trouble: none has satisfactorily explained how and why the monarch whom Rudyard Kipling called "a corpulent voluptuary" was also modern Britain's most agile royal diplomat and plenipotentiary. Now, Boston-bred Virginia Cowles has shown that an American woman may look at a King with more understanding than many a Briton. Married to former Under Secretary of State for Air Aidan Crawley, Author Cowles has been a newspaper correspondent in Europe since the Spanish civil war. The excellence of her biography lies...