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...Eisenhower noises a few months ago, is now revealed as McCarthy's staunch supporter on the committee: Idaho's Dworshak, who was publicly insulted by McCarthy a few weeks ago, has masticated his pride and does what Dirksen suggests; Michigan's Freshman Senator Potter seems adrift; Chairman Mundt, trying painfully to be impartial, has won himself a new name-The Tormented Mushroom...
When, as in The Black Rose, one Yellow Horde meets another, the one with some perceptible religion will triumph after horrible and chastening suffering. In the forthcoming Genghis Khan, however, the script writers are cast adrift without a hint as to American preference, none of the combatants being particularly religious and all being equally crafty and barbaric. Until the Horde tangles with Europeans near the end, there should be some terrific battles, with the victory to the strong rather than the popular...
...when G.O.P. leaders, including Robert Taft, turned against McCarthy because of his wild charges against Diplomat Charles Bohlen, McCarthy diverted attention by claiming credit for taking Greek ships out of trade with China. In that round, McCarthy knocked down an Eisenhower lieutenant, Harold Stassen. By late 1953, McCarthy was adrift in a lackluster investigation at Fort Monmouth, N.J., but Harry Truman put him back in the headlines by labeling the exposure of the Harry Dexter White case as "McCarthyism." Joe promptly proclaimed that Joe was the issue in the 1954 elections...
...Foreign Minister Robert Schuman: "In a democracy without authority, everything goes adrift: Parliament, government, administration. We no longer respect each other enough to recognize the superiority of others. We know not how to command nor to obey...
...joined the Navy as an apprentice seaman, started his training as a "90day wonder," and elected to fight the war in small boats. He got his wish: skipper of a PT boat in the South Pacific, where he participated in the rescue of Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, who had been adrift on a raft for 21 days. Later, Kennedy's squadron also rescued Lieut. John Kennedy (no kin, now the junior Senator from Massachusetts), whose boat had been rammed and sunk by a Jap destroyer...