Word: winter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after Hollister got down to work, New York Timesman James Reston nominated him to membership in a "4-H Club" within the Administration bent on gutting foreign aid. The other members: Treasury Secretary George Humphrey (soon to resign), onetime Under Secretary of State Herbert Hoover Jr. (who resigned last winter), onetime Budget Director Rowland Hughes (who resigned last year, died three months ago). But the more hardheaded John Hollister saw of foreign aid the more he appreciated its hard-bitten value, and the less he attempted to cut down functions he once thought he might eliminate. This year he tried...
After the sale Fort Lauderdale golfers heard unhappily that greens fees ($1.50 in summer, $3 in winter) will soon be raised to cover taxes, improvements, and a ten-year $373,400 mortgage. Unhappy also was the city's young (30) Mayor John V. Russell, who voted against the sale, pointed .to other Southern cities, where Negroes seldom appear on integrated courses. Outspoken Mayor Russell outlined a problem worrying many another Dixie city official: "A handful of Negroes can put us out of the recreation business entirely. We have miles of public beaches, a swimming pool, and the finest marina...
...polls, has also come out for blank ballots. Meanwhile, the powerful Radicals faction, headed by Lawyer Arturo Frondizi, is hoping to gain control of the assembly, vote its immediate dissolution and call for general elections. The People's Radical Party, which split off from the Frondizi group last winter, is the biggest party backing Aramburu on constitutional reform...
...party at the local dancing class. Critics who do not like it can only lump it with the corny appeal of ABC's Bandleader Lawrence Welk. Yet for the last three summers, the Murrays have won a bigger share of the TV audience than the winter shows they replaced, and last fortnight they out-Trendexed (by 11.6 to 7.8) Bandleader Welk himself, one of TV's best drawing cards...
...Army 21, Navy 21), and in weeks to come, Ben Hogan's famed comeback, Jesse Owens' track feats at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Columbia's last-minute upset of an Army eleven in 1947. In all, it promises to be a summer show with winter vigor...