Word: washingtons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Host Barnet Nover, Denver Postman and old Washington hand, finally succeeded in moving Warren and Mazo to a corner of the room, where they talked for nearly an hour. Finally, Earl Warren put his hand on Earl Maze's shoulder and said, "Come see me sometime to talk things over," and left...
...first 49-star flags in the domestic U.S. were unfurled from the U.S. Capitol, and at Fort McHenry in Baltimore Harbor. At the Capitol arm-weary policemen raised and lowered 1,072 new flags on four flagpoles so that Congressmen could mail favored constituents new flags authentically flown over Washington in the first day; the cops took about 30 seconds to clamp each flag to the halyard, haul it up and drop it down again into a red, white and blue mailing...
Fortnight ago. Khrushchev not only received Harriman at the Kremlin, but drove him out into the country for an intimate little dinner with Kozlov, Mikoyan and Gromyko. Last week an alarmed Harriman cabled significant excerpts of the conversation to Washington for President Eisenhower to study, and repeated some of them in articles for LIFE and the North American Newspaper Alliance...
...bulletins on the President's fitness). He is a man under strain, a man who deliberately isolates himself, unhesitantly separating himself from his supporters as from his enemies. In foreign affairs he has been determined to demand a greater say for France in Western councils. If often annoyed, Washington (like France) believes that a difficult De Gaulle is preferable to a France with no De Gaulle...
Gunrunners. There were arms aplenty available for the purpose, even though Washington has embargoed all weapons shipments to the Caribbean, except for Haiti, caught between Cuba and the Dominican Republic. In Miami last week, U.S. Supervising Customs Agent Joseph A. Fortier reported as a matter of fact that the arms business is booming. Many of the arms are bought in Northern centers, such as Newark, New York and Chicago, but almost all of them are shipped through Miami. For lack of an adequate staff, says Fortier, four out of every five shipments got through...