Word: wilsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...says Burnham, the presidency has become "the primary democratist institution." A democratist tone was already audible in President-to-be Woodrow Wilson's pronouncement, back in 1908, that the U.S. "craves a single leader." Democratism's big thrust came in the early years of the New Deal, with Franklin Roosevelt pushing batches of White House bills through Congress and even challenging the Supreme Court in his notorious (but illfated) court-packing plan...
...Research and Development, took charge of U.S. missile and satellite planning, gained Pentagon renown for late-night desk work and a penchant for drinking cups of plain hot water. In 1955 he became Air Force Secretary. Two years later he moved up to Deputy Defense Secretary, became Charles E. Wilson's closest adviser...
...with the ear of Charlie Wilson and later of Neil McElroy, courteous, forceful Donald Quarles made enemies. He refused to favor old Air Force friends, chopped their budget as severely as the Army's and Navy's. From Quarles's office came the orders for cutbacks and stretch-outs in defense contracts, for a slowdown on wild-blue-yonder research, for an end to competitive missile programs-all to keep the Defense budget within bounds while the U.S. maintained a weapons "sufficiency...
...Sultan's catchable eye was caught by Helen Wilson, the Scottish wife of his physician. He divorced his four Malayan wives by the Moslem formula of telling them "Get out" three times before witnesses. Helen Wilson sailed home for the more laborious Western process of divorcing her husband, married the Sultan later that year, and honeymooned with him in the U.S., where the Sultan was equally affable with President Franklin Roosevelt and Mae West...
...Crimson field event crew sparkled as usual. Liles took first in the broad jump, and high jumper John deKiewiet and pole vaulter Tom Blodgett contributed wins in their specialities. Jim Doty, Stan Doten, and Roger Wilson swept the hammer, and Hank Abbot triumphed in the shot. Shot putter Steve Cohen, fighting for a letter, uncorked a 49 ft., 7 3/4 in, heave on his last attempt to beat Karl Mayer of Dartmouth for second...