Word: allen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recession is an expensive luxury," said Central Intelligence Agency Director Allen Dulles to 700 U.S. Chamber of Commerce delegates after a satisfying lunch of ham with raisin sauce and apple pie with cheese in Washington's flossy Mayflower Hotel. "Soviet propagandists have had a field day in recent months pounding away at American free enterprise." And just in case some complacent citizens, including a few drowsy ones in his audience, did not know that the Soviet economy is coming up fast to make it a real race, Dulles ticked off some dry facts...
...immense poetic acuity-are what Ransom's followers praise him for, and he began early to collect followers. As a young instructor at Tennessee's Vanderbilt University in the early '20s. he be came a founder and chief literary exhibit of a band of Southern poets (Allen Tate, Robert Penn Warren, et al.) called the Fugitives. A few years older than the others, Ransom led the flight of the Fugitives-from the strictures of the machine age, they explained, to the rural virtue of Southern soil - but not to Southern romanticism, which Ransom roasted to a clinker...
Freshmen were not given the opportunity to vote for Allen L. Reische '61 because his petition for nomination was not submitted before the Monday evening deadline. Reische's campaign managers argue, however, that Zagat, one of the winners in yesterday's election, also submitted his petition late...
...Northcote Parkinson, author of "Parkinson's Law," and Allen Tate, poet and critic, will teach courses in History and English at the Summer School this year...
Agency Director Allen Dulles: "They will buy anything, trade anything and dump anything if it advances Communism or helps to destroy the influence of the West." Last month, for example, Russia moved heavily into the British aluminum market with lower prices (TIME, April 7). Russia has also sold tin, zinc and soybean products below market prices, is selling trucks, autos and machinery in the Middle East at prices the West cannot match...