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...Senator Everett Dirksen Later, talking to other reporters he dropped Dirksen and Craig and added Massachusetts' Governor Christian Herter. In both cases the name of Richard Nixon was conspicuous by its absence When a reporter finally asked why Nixon was not on the list. Knight had a sudden afterthought: "Oh sure he should...
Canada's External Affairs Chief Lester Pearson, who had declared a fortnight ago that Canadian neutrality would be "unthinkable" if the U.S. were at war, was evidently thinking hard about it last week -and making a few qualifications. Pearson's afterthought came out in a foreign-policy debate in Parliament, when he was under attack by opposition CCF (Socialist) members for following the U.S. too closely, and by Tory and Social Credit critics who feel that Canadian support of the U.S. is not forthright enough...
Ever since Plato, scholars have been baffled by a seemingly closed mystery: Where did the alphabet come from? The Greeks thought that the Phoenicians had learned it in Egypt and that "because they navigated the sea, brought it to Greece." Nineteenth-century scholars, in pensive afterthought, decided that the Semites developed the alphabet from certain cursive characters that the Egyptians had evolved from their own hieroglyphs. Later, other scholars began to discover certain signs that predated hieroglyphs -a series of trademarks, potters' signs, pawnbrokers' labels, and masons' marks that may have spread from trader to trader...
...afterthought, Bulganin announced that ex-Premier Georgy Malenkov had been made Minister of Electric Power Stations, and would continue to be a Deputy Premier...
...mathematics class was over, and the haggard, pale instructor gathered up his papers. One of the boys approached him and asked for the foreign stamp on a letter that lay on the desk. As the teacher started to oblige, the boy had an afterthought: "Please, would you give me the whole envelope with your name on it? It will be worth lots of money some day." Even in children's minds, Henri Dubois, 37, mathematics teacher at the Technical College for Boys in the French city of Albi, is a famous man. All through the French Pyrenees his name...