Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the President: ¶ Sent the Senate a list of 119 nominations, nearly all of them appointed during the congressional recess. Topping the list were Chief Justice Earl Warren and Labor Secretary James Mitchell. ¶ Announced that Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia would visit him in May. ¶ Wrote a letter to the Associated Press's Ernest ("Tony") Vaccaro on the occasion of his election as president of the National Press Club. As an "elected official," Ike wrote, Vaccaro must realize that the members would demand a program for reducing dues while balancing the club budget and providing...
Arriving back in Italy after a U.S. visit, Ambassador Clare Boothe Luce brought with her the State Department's resolve to press the Italian government to intensify curbs on the Reds. At the airport, speaking over the radio, she also had a lighter recommendation. She suggested that in Italy she be called Ambassadress instead of Ambassador, because in Italian "Mrs. Ambassador" soon leads to intricate grammatical complications. "And I do not want to make even small difficulties for you." she said...
...last week, without trumpet call or handout, the plan was under way. Leaders of Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Turkey are preparing to visit Pakistan. Shortly, the U.S. is expected to approve the first arms shipments to Pakistan...
...Philadelphia Orchestra had a new guest conductor last week. His name: Eduard van Beinum, principal leader for the past eight years of Amsterdam's famed Concertgebouw Orchestra. The concert was Van Beinum's first in the U.S. (it was his first visit to the country as well), and the 53-year-old Dutchman got bravos and raves from critics, audience and the musicians themselves. Beamed one orchestra member: "The boys are daffy about...
Because sports skeptics have questioned the will to win of the play-for-pay boys, Promoter Kramer decided to set up a jackpot-prize tournament at each of the 88 U.S. cities the pros will visit in their 25,000-mile cross-country junket. Where the take is fat enough, as it has been in New York and Philadelphia, the players will be shooting for $4,000 to the winner, will have to settle for $2,500, $1,500 or $1,000 in defeat. In other cities, they will play for comparable percentages of the gate...