Word: facing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...voter who isn't blind, I am getting sick and tired of hearing about Jack Kennedy's "good looks." The last time I saw a face like his, Tarzan was feeding it bananas...
...years of decision," is what we face as voters. To make the voters get out of their easy chairs and stop watching television, has either party given us a man of distinction, with a definite, clear approach to our problems...
Poland. Wladyslaw Gomulka, 54, is the only satellite leader ever to face down Khrushchev and the ruler of the only Warsaw Pact nation to accept U.S. aid. A "homegrown Communist," who is alive today only because he was in a Polish jail in 1937 when Stalin liquidated the rest of Poland's Communist leadership, Gomulka is an irascible, puritanical man who hates conviviality and chitchat; he has strictly forbidden his aides to publicize his private life-which is largely given over to swimming, volley ball and his Russian-Jewish wife Zofja. Like Hungary's Kadar, Gomulka was arrested...
Zorin ended by demanding what amounted to a vote of censure of Hammarskjold and a directive sharply restricting his authority in the Congo. Dag Hammarskjold's usually impassive face flushed with anger. "My record is on the table," he said. "I stand by it . . . The U.N. is engaged in a major effort to give life and substance to the independence of the Congo. No misunderstandings, no misinformation, no misinterpretations of the actions of the U.N. should be permitted to hamper an operation the importance of which, I know, is fully appreciated by all those African countries which, with great...
Even before the Los Angeles roar acclaiming Massachusetts' Senator John F. Kennedy, the Houston Post got a hint of the kind of journalistic problem it might have to face. Getting word that an itinerant preacher had hit town with a warning against electing a Catholic to anything from President on down to dogcatcher, the Post reported one of his meetings. Recalls Post Managing Editor William P. Hobby Jr.: "We soon got all sorts of hell from ministers of his denomination." A delegation of Church of Christ preachers, complaining of the deprecatory tone of the Post's story, demanded...