Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crimson captain Gerry Emmet, after narrowly losing his first game in extra points, came back dramatically to win his match in four games. Emmet's combination of delicate drop shots and slashing aisle shots allowed him to retain control of the center of the court, while the Midshipman was obliged to scamper around...
Kept aglow by the hot breath of clerical argument, the sputtering dynamite charge of birth control-tossed gingerly from hand to hand among presidential candidates-last week landed in the middle of Dwight Eisenhower's news conference. What was the President's reaction, a newsman asked, to a recommendation made last July by a special presidential committee chaired by William H. Draper Jr., investment banker and industrialist? The Draper committee's recommendation: the U.S.. as part of its foreign aid program, should heed requests for assistance from nations trying to curb runaway population. Mindful...
Concluded Ike firmly: "This government will not, as long as I am here, have a positive political doctrine in its program that has to do with this problem of birth control. That's not our business...
...Primary Need." But the President's air of finality just fanned the sparks. Protestant Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike of San Francisco, who had been the first to toss the birth-control issue to leading Democratic Presidential Hopeful Jack Kennedy, a Roman Catholic, tossed it back at the White House. The bishop: "The President has chosen to refuse . . . to allow this nation of abundance to meet a primary need of countries who want aid towards population control to help avert increasing starvation and misery." In Detroit, the Rev. Dr. R. Norris Wilson, overseas relief director of the National Council...
...False Issue." In Manhattan for the Democratic Advisory Council's strategy sessions. ex-President Harry Truman tried to dodge a possible party-splitting row. Said Truman, when asked if the birth-control controversy would hurt Kennedy's chances: "Why should it? It's a false issue so far as the presidency is concerned. They always get up false issues to break up the Democratic Party before a convention." But, on the hunch that "they" might have a point, his fellow members of the Advisory Council urged creation of a "National Peace Agency," which would study, among other...