Word: william
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...confidence in me." After security men cleared a small gap in the crowd, Ike blasted through it -"Good shot." the crowd murmured, and Ike shot an 89. Next morning, who should turn up at Culzean Castle but the President's old golf-playing and bridge-playing buddies, William Robinson, chairman of the board of Coca-Cola, and W. Alton ("Pete") Jones, chairman of the executive committee of Cities Service Co. Ike's aides had called them from Paris, invited them to Scotland. "We'll be over," said they, and they were...
Most other Congressmen, viewing the long-debated bill from all political positions, felt about the same. The Senate promptly passed the bill on what members counted the same as a unanimous vote: only oddball Democrat Wayne Morse of Oregon and oddball Republican William Langer of North Dakota opposed. The House voted next day, 352-52, sent the bill on to the White House. When President Eisenhower signs, as he doubtless will and with some satisfaction, the reform act will become the U.S.'s first substantial labor legislation since the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 (which was passed over President...
...business (24 U.S. companies began operations there last year), U.S. dollars, and even U.S. art. Last week the President nominated as the new U.S. Ambassador to Belgium a New Yorker who shares all three of these likes. Ike's nominee: rugged (6 ft. 1 in., 179 Ibs.) William Armistead Moale Burden, 53, wealthy investment specialist, aviation enthusiast, and president of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. He will replace retiring (for personal reasons) Washington Investment Banker John Clifford Folger...
...evening of overdue negotiations did not add up to any real change in the revolution's anti-U.S. slant. Sticking to the new tough line, the State Department last week decided to lift the citizenship of a key Castro aide, Ohio-born Major William Morgan (TIME, Aug. 24), on the grounds that he is a member .of a t foreign army. Similar action against about a dozen other U.S.-born Castro soldiers will follow...
...begins to reach out beyond his own planet into outer space, scientists are being forced to grapple with the fact that they live in a plasma universe. Said M.I.T. Physicist William P. Allis: "It is as if a people had lived all their lives in the mountains and then had come down to the edge of the ocean. Before they could use sea water or navigate through it, they would have to learn some things that would be perfectly obvious to anyone who had lived by the sea." Last week the National Science Foundation announced grants...