Word: youngs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate Foreign Relations Committee, "that career foreign-service officers nominated for ambassadorial posts have some qualifications. There is, however, no such presumption that noncareer nominees are qualified. The burden on noncareer people is to prove to the committee that they are qualified." Arkansas' Fulbright was talking to young (33) Ogden Rogers Reid, former publisher of the New York Herald Tribune, who has been nominated by President Eisenhower as U.S. Ambassador to Israel. Fulbright had every intention of using "Brownie" Reid to prove his argument that noncareer ambassadorial nominees must show that they have "some special unusual qualities" to justify...
MASSACHUSETTS' Senator Jack Kennedy, front runner in all the polls, is (in the Truman-Rayburn view) too young (42), with the massive additional handicap of being a Roman Catholic. But Truman and Rayburn agreed that Kennedy is a top prospect for second spot on any ticket...
...himself got away with proclaiming that the army has its "sinners and wrongdoers" inclined to "fascism." The army does not want to make a martyr of him. But for repeating his slogans in villages two of his young partisans have been charged with sedition. When another U Nu supporter was arrested, 500 of his party members, loyal to the new spirit of jolly nonviolence, embarrassed the cops by banging on cymbals, playing flutes, and beating drums in a shrill crescendo of musical disapproval...
Interviewed in Florida, Singer Pat Boone, sometime lay Church of Christ preacher, allowed that show business is a fine calling for an old (24) codger like himself, but "I wouldn't recommend it for young people-especially girls. If they have a very special talent, maybe...
...science. Explorers glimpse them, perhaps bring back a few strips of skin or a blurry photograph, and are greeted with skepticism or accused of attempting a hoax. The pygmy hippopotamus of West Africa has been seen repeatedly since the 1840s. Skulls were brought out for study, and a young one actually lived several weeks in the Dublin zoo. But for 50 years authorities refused to accept it as a real and new genus...