Word: well-to-do
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...suburban Spring Valley. In his budget message last week, President Eisenhower suggested that Congress' "attention should be directed to the acquisition and maintenance of an official residence for the Vice President," but asked for no money to buy one. This brought on unofficial suggestions that some well-to-do fellow who owns an extra house around Washington might want to endear himself to Vice Presidents by making such a tax-deductible gift to the U.S. and posterity...
...life in Laos since that country became an independent nation 2½ years ago. With the French no longer directing its political life, the unwarlike people of this Buddhist kingdom in the interior of the Indochinese peninsula relapsed into their old hedonist ways. Though Laos is practically roadless, well-to-do Laotians bought Mercedes cars and Italian scooters (with U.S. and French aid), built showy riverside houses, idled their days away in the pagoda gardens listening to Panpipe music and watching the graceful Thai dances. But a peck of trouble is in store for the pleasure-loving Laotians...
...ambition to be a permanent President of Haiti, but as the end of his term neared, he resolved to impose a manageable puppet in elections set for next April. But Haitians spurned what .amounted to another Magloire administration. Instead, they warmed up to Opposition Candidate Louis Dejoie, a well-to-do planter who promised a businesslike regime...
...leader was a wellborn, well-to-do daredevil of 29, named Fidel Castro. As chief of a 1953 uprising in eastern Santiago de Cuba, the island's No. 2 city, Lawyer Castro had been jailed, amnestied, exiled. In Mexico this year he pulled together a ragtag force, dubbed it the July 26 Movement (for the date of the Santiago attack), drilled it at a ranch near Mexico City. Last month Castro, crying "Liberty or death in 1956," called on Strongman Batista to step down and form a national unity government or face revolution. In Havana Castro's followers...
...life has already become something of a legend, encrusted in contradictions. As a Jew, she fulminated against Judaism. As a Christian, she could never bring herself to join any church (she was most drawn to Roman Catholicism). Born of a well-to-do Jewish agnostic family, she was barely five when she refused to eat sugar because French front-line soldiers in World War I were deprived of it. At 14, she dispensed with socks because the children of the poor could not wear them. As a young schoolteacher, she flirted with Marxism. To "understand" the workingman, she took...