Word: explains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...delegate from California's Whittier Post 51 had better luck. Vice President Richard Nixon, a Navy lieutenant in World War II, was in Minneapolis to explain Nikita Khrushchev's U.S. trip, just as the Legion's leaders were drafting an assault on the visit, including a condemnation of President Eisenhower for issuing the invitation. Weary (40 & 8-playboys near his hotel suite had given him a restless night) and limping (a bump on his knee had turned into a painful case of bursitis), Nixon nonetheless got in his licks. A burst of applause greeted his statement...
...that followed his U.S. visit, Fidel Castro last May temporarily cooled toward Ernesto ("Che") Guevara, the Argentine Communist who served as Castro's top field commander in the Cuban revolution. Castro went on the air, said that he had been invited to many foreign lands to explain the Cuban revolution, but could not go. So, said Castro, "I am sending one of the most responsible compañeros of the revolution, Dr. Guevara. Nobody should have the slightest suspicion. He will be among us again within 30 or 45 days...
Many educators would like to see the cutoff point raised from the current U.S. average of 5 years 9 months to about 5 years 11 months. They explain that the younger the child the less his chances of adjusting to first-grade work; early failure at the blackboard can induce a defeatist attitude that endures for years. Physically as well as mentally, say the educators, waiting is wise. Studies have shown that four out of five children are still normally farsighted at the age of six, are handicapped in reading until about six months later. But these arguments...
...Washington's American University announced a six-week course sponsored by the 70-corporation Business Council for International Understanding, which will train any U.S. executive (and wife) before he tackles a foreign assignment. Aims: a working knowledge of the new culture and language, an ability to explain and defend the U.S. abroad, expert tutoring from State Department officials. "Long overdue," said Republic Steel (and B.C.I.U. Policy Board) Chairman Charles M. White. "It could mean the end of the overseas misfit...
...Winston Churchill, but both have had Niehans' cellular injections from other physicians. In the isolation of his palatial home, Dr. Niehans admits that besides the criterion of "individual prominence," he chooses patients who are "most likely to give good response to treatment." This selection may go far to explain why so many are satisfied...