Word: algerism
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...House Committee on Un-American Activities into a pumpkin patch on his Maryland farm. From inside a hollowed-out pumpkin he produced several rolls of microfilm: copies of secret Government documents that, he claimed, had been passed to him in the 1930s by a State Department official named Alger Hiss, when both men were members of a Soviet espionage ring...
AWARDED. To the late Whittaker Chambers, onetime TIME editor and confessed Soviet agent whose testimony helped convict Alger Hiss, an ex-State Department official and accused Communist spy, of perjury in 1950; a Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest U.S. civilian award. Chambers, who died in 1961, was one of 14 recipients of this year's medal. Others included the late Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, the late baseball great Jackie Robinson, Senate Majority Leader Howard H. Baker Jr., Actor James Cagney, Country Singer Tennessee Ernie Ford, Writer Louis L'Amour and the Rev. Norman Vincent Peale...
...Spiral" ads have been discontinued except one cooperative ad with the Lauriat bookshop, according to Adrienne Alger, a public relations officer at Houghton Mifflin...
...Spirals' has not been officially bought it's only up for option." Alger said explaining that the company that made the $7500 down-payment this week has two to three months to come up with the financing. "Otherwise the rights go back up for sale she added...
...want people to think of me as some Horatio Alger or an example of the American dream. It's not a matter of my rising above the society from which I came. It's just a matter of my taking a different route, but that doesn't make me any better," Buttner says...