Word: willful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cross Section. When he concluded his state paper on U.S. hopes for a prosperous, free world, the President took a chrome steel spade that was inscribed: Here, in the Heart of America, Dwight D. Eisenhower learned the Lessons of Youth which shaped his rise to stalwart leader and fearless fighter...
Among the ways and means: "technical services, private and public loans, dependable, mutually helpful trade relationships, grants in emergency situations, security help in transition years ... If the growing power of free men is wisely and skillfully applied toward the common aspirations of humanity, then a world of peace and plenty...
"As free men shape historic trends toward noble goals," he said, many of today's nettlesome problems will abolish themselves. "As the less developed nations succeed in establishing viable economies and raising their living standards, our own economy will soar to new heights and our technology will be challenged...
"The task ahead is not for the fainthearted," said the President. "The world must learn to work together-or finally it will not work at all."
California is a mouth-watering morsel for any presidential aspirant. With 81 delegate votes at the Democratic National Convention, it shares with Pennsylvania the party's second-strongest honors (first: New York with 114). And since taking office nine months ago, California's able, amiable Governor Edmund G...