Word: adams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leaders. His answers left behind a trail of disillusionment and downright anger. Urging moderation,, he said the Federal Government must go slowly in enforcing desegregation, using education and persuasion rather than force. He came out flatly (as President Eisenhower had) against the proposal by Harlem's Democratic Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr. to deny federal aid to segregated school districts. Would he use the Army and Navy, if necessary, to enforce the Supreme Court decision? "I think that would be a great mistake," said Stevenson. "That is exactly what brought on the Civil...
Similar questions have been asked in a handful of books about Southeast Asia, notably Norman Lewis' A Single Pilgrim (TIME, April 26, 1954). Author Shaplen manages to suggest that the answers are easy without really giving any answer. Faced with immensely complex problems, Hero Adam Patch wades in with the zeal and vocabulary of a New Republic editorial. The U.S. consul in Saigon, he chafes under what he thinks is stifling official caution. If only his stuffy superiors would let him get to the little people of the villages, let him bypass the complacent French, and let the Vietnamese...
...terrorists hurl grenades into cafés in broad daylight. Harmless-looking old shopkeepers convert their shabby little stores into arms depots for Communist agents. A Chinese gambling-house operator runs weapons to the enemy. Counterespionage is apt at any time to burgeon into counter-counterespionage. At this game Adam Patch is about as subtle as a sand-lot quarterback. A Vietnamese doctor shows up, claiming to be a deserter from the Communists, with a plan for winning the countryside that the Reds have not yet seized. Although nothing reliable is known about him, Adam latches onto...
...Adam B. Ulam, associate professor of Government, and Martin E. Malia, assistant professor of History, both said that the speech made no fundamental change in Marxian doctrine. Both mentioned that Marx, late in life, envisaged peaceful means of achieving the classless society. Malia emphasized that this was merely another attempt at neutralizing Western Europe and disrupting the NATO alliance. Ulam noted that the new doctrine implied no willingness to make genuine concessions to the West...
Generation of Ciphers. Roaming with Skeffington from waterfront to wake ("Never neglect the relatives, friends or enemies of the deceased"), Adam sees the old campaigner turn on the charm and put on the pressure. Disloyal allies are axed, appointees are squeezed for campaign contributions, the opposition newspaper is promised "a little trouble with the building inspectors shortly...