Word: wings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fellow. Lyndon Johnson has never ridden higher, and he should be a happy man. But he is not, and he may never be. He sits at his command-post desk in Office G14, Senate wing, U.S. Capitol, restless with energy, tumbling with talk. He flashes gold cuff links, fiddles with the gold band of a gold wristwatch, toys with a tiny gold pillbox, tinkers with a gold desk ornament. And he glances often at the green wall, where hangs Edmund Burke's framed warning about the vexations of leadership...
...Labor Leader Walter Reuther would tell his side of the long-drawn-out Kohler strike to a Senate investigating committee that was hotly divided in its attitude toward the fiery United Auto Workers leader. Democrats would try to protect Democrat Reuther; Republicans were hoping to provoke him into left-wing excesses. Reason: the four-year-old Kohler strike is the nation's major labor-management battleground...
...pardoned by President Coty of France, she will walk to the guillotine as have 127 other Algerians in the 3½-year rebellion. Outraged at the dubious procedures of her trial, French newspapers from the Communist L'Humanite to the conservative Le Figaro to the right-wing L'Aurore are protesting her coming execution. India's Nehru, Tunisia's Bourguiba, Russia's Voroshilov have appealed for clemency as have writers, labor leaders, professors, bishops and philosophers from Norway to Switzerland to Lebanon...
...Cleveland Museum of Art, long acknowledged a gem of tasteful beauty in its tree-shaded setting overlooking a lagoon, last week opened a $9,000,000 wing that more than doubled its size. The wing was hung with a raft of surprise acquisitions that clearly put Cleveland close behind the U.S.'s Big Three (New York's Metropolitan, Washington's National Gallery, Boston's Fine Arts). On hand to celebrate Cleveland's happy advance were collectors, art dealers and museum directors from as far away as Korea...
...road and bridge contractor who moved to Argentina in the great migration from Italy in the 1890s. Born in the northern province of Corrientes, he reached the University of Buenos Aires in time to choose between the fashionable political trends of Argentina in the late '20s: the right-wing nationalists led by the Prussianized army, and the University leftists. Frondizi turned left, went in for Marx and Kropot-kin-but pulled up short of becoming a socialist or Communist. Instead, he breezed through law school in three years and turned down the school's Diploma of Honor because...