Word: attacker
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Limb. In the fast-changing political climate, Adlai Stevenson was the Democrat who seemed farthest out on a limb. The first to attack the Administration for its international blunders (he spoke out even before Ike had returned from the exploded summit), Stevenson had followed through with the harshest, most persistent criticism. "The effectiveness for leadership of the present Administration in Washington has been impaired if not destroyed," he told the Textile Workers convention in Chicago. "We must make it plain that peace and disarmament are the paramount goals of our foreign policy . . . Why was total disarmament proposed last fall...
...final illness, Pasternak worriedly told an old friend he thought he had lung cancer. He begged that his suspicion be kept from his wife, Zinaida, so as not to upset her. Yet when he was fatally stricken, the Soviet doctors diagnosed Pasternak's illness as a heart attack and only later discovered it was the result of cancer spreading to the heart muscles. By then, cancer had colonized both lungs and was advancing from his stomach through the digestive tract...
...last week, sober second thoughts began to set in, and for the first time since he began his march around India nine years ago, Bhave found himself under heavy attack. Dryly, the Times of India noted that ten times as many dacoits had surrendered to police in the three years previous. From Madhya Pradesh Police Inspector-General K. F. Rustomji came the bitter charge that Bhave's criticisms of the police had weakened their morale and heartened the dacoits, with the result that the crime rate in the ravines was on the rise. In acid agreement, the Hindustan Times...
...Mamie Eisenhower, 63, recovering in Washington's Walter Reed Army Medical Center from an attack of acute asthmatic bronchitis, an illness that has plagued her previously and may prevent her accompanying Ike on his Far East tour this week; Philadelphia Builder John B. Kelly Sr., 70, mending after an operation for intestinal adhesions and buoyed up by a visit from his daughter, Princess Grace of Monaco; Eugene Dennis, 54, chairman of the Communist Party in the U.S., bedded in a Manhattan hospital after surgery for lung cancer; Cinemactor Gary Cooper, 59, whose prospects for recovery were "good" after...
Died. Paula Wolf, 64, penniless spinster sister of Adolf Hitler, of whom she once said, "I would have preferred it a thousand times over if he had remained an architect''; of a heart attack while ill with cancer; in Berchtesgaden, Germany...