Word: alonge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Archives, returned to the hearing room that afternoon with an indignant explanation: It was an "inconsequential letter," and if, "after 32 years, only one letter can be produced, I have a lot to be thankful for." Subcommittee Chairman Oren Harris, an Arkansas Democrat who has been less excited all along than Wolverton about congressional pressures on the FCC, cut in quickly. "There is no impropriety," said Harris. "Hearing is adjourned...
Ominous Whispers. It was a measure of the psychotic state of French politics that where Bourguiba's tough talk had provoked Frenchmen to fury, his proffered olive branch very nearly toppled the government of Premier Felix Gaillard. Trouble was that along with the olive branch came news that Bourguiba would still not agree to France's scheme for "neutral control'' of the border between Tunisia and revolt-torn Algeria, still insisted that France publicly concede that "in principle" Tunisia has sovereignty over Bizerte. Stirred to their chauvinistic depths. France's right-wing Independents, a vital...
...European" maternity home. A Pakistani trade commissioner who had been an R.A.F. squadron leader during World War II was invited to represent his country at a ceremony arranged by the city of Salisbury to honor Britain's Marquis of Salisbury. He found himself shunted to a segregated seat, along with other non-whites while the rest of the diplomatic corps were allotted seats in the council chamber. When the Indian assistant commissioner, the wealthy, Oxford-educated Rajah of Alirajpur, had to visit the Nyasaland capital of Zomba on official business, the only hotel accommodations he could get were...
...most beautiful bridge in the world," Florentines called it, and they never got over their outrage when, in 1944, the retreating Nazis blew up the Ponte Santa Trinita, along with four other bridges across the Arno. (Only the Ponte Vecchio was spared, because it was considered too fragile to be useful for Allied military vehicles.) Designed...
...annual Republican Women's Na tional Conference in Washington, compared new spring hat notes with Mamie Eisenhower. Later, the First Lady learned that for the sixth time she had been chosen one of America's 14 best-dressed women by Manhattan's Fashion Academy, along with such well-tailored veterans as Broadway Columnist Dorothy Kilgallen, a four-time choice, Mrs. Henry Ford (three times), and Radio-TV Burbler Maggi McNellis (eight times). A newcomer: Opera Diva Maria Callas...