Word: youngs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...still think of the fun we had in working for our own future. Indeed, it was easy to make little sacrifices, because I was young and, of course, very much in love...
...Money. After war's end, the Wall Street investment firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. astonished Lewis Strauss by offering him a job at a five-figure starting salary. A Kuhn, Loeb partner, passing through Hoover's headquarters in Paris, had spotted Strauss as a truly promising young man. He was right. Sometime Shoe Salesman Strauss prospered spectacularly on Wall Street, pushed Kuhn, Loeb into highly profitable steel-company financing (Inland, Republic, Great Lakes), became a full partner at 32, piled up a fortune...
Even if Governor Rockefeller does decide to avoid a head-on New Hampshire clash with his chief rival, Vice President Richard Nixon, the contest seems sure to come eventually. In fact, Oregon's young Republican Governor Mark Hatfield, visiting in New York last week (and conferring with Rockefeller during his stay), assured newsmen that both Rockefeller and Nixon will be entered in the Oregon presidential primary. Reason: a new Oregon law requiring that the primary ballot carry the names of all candidates-whether "announced or generally advocated...
...assume (erroneously) that the Times is the unofficial mouthpiece of British governments, as it had been, to its subsequent shame, in the days of Munich. To make matters worse, the Lloyd story had a certain plausibility. Once hailed as one of the Tory Party's coming stars ("a young man who never puts a foot wrong"), plump, pedestrian Selwyn Lloyd, 54, was all but ruined politically by being Foreign Secretary at the time of the Suez invasion, and by his disingenuous attempts to justify Suez afterward. For a long time, it was said, Harold Macmillan only kept...
...Dock, delegates from every Ford plant petitioned Home Secretary R. A. ("Rab") Butler, and the Bishop of Southwark denounced Magistrate Rose's sentence as "savage and inhuman." Unfortunately, the Widow Christos' case was not the only one. British newspapers were still quivering over the case of a young engaged couple who were haled into court for committing "an act of lewd, obscene and disgusting nature such as to cause offense to diverse of Her Majesty's subjects." The couple's actual crime was nothing more than to kiss each other good night in a parked...