Word: whitely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Seat Belts. The President's flying White House is rigged for the best in comfort and communications. The President himself usually takes off facing forward at a desk in his private compartment; at his side is an ivory-colored telephone that is hooked into a single-sideband radio, enabling Ike to talk to any spot in the world. For classified conversations, his radio operator uses a radio-teletype which scrambles messages that can only be unscrambled at a single receiving point. Also aboard: reclining chairs, sofa beds, tape player, hifi, two galleys, two astrodomes...
...birth control at home or in Western Europe. "Accordingly, I think it would be the greatest psychological mistake for us to appear to advocate limitation of the black, or brown, or yellow peoples whose population is increasing no faster than in the United States." If he were in the White House, presented by Congress with a foreign aid bill that asked recipient nations to curb population growth, Kennedy said, he would judge the measure by whether it "would be in the interest of the United States." If such a bill became law, said he, "I would uphold...
...school board offices, the mayor's business office and the fire chief's city-owned station wagon (TIME, Sept. 21). "Don't let New York or Chicago or TIME Magazine tell you what to do in this case," cried the attorney before the all-white jury...
Intransience developed at the beginning of this year however, when the White House declared that data from the Hardtack II series of four underground nuclear explosions the previous October invalidated the findings of the Geneva experts. The main result showed that primary waves were weaker than expected and therefore were harder to distinguish from smaller quakes. The Russians steadily refused to study this data until last week, claiming it was merely an attempt by the U.S. to sabotage the conference. Certainly the way and manner in which this information was released by the U.S. appeared to be deliberately misleading...
Meeting with newsmen a few hours after the White House announced his resignation, McElroy said he planned to end his government task during the evening and witness the swearing in of Gates tomorrow at a ceremony in the executive mansion...