Word: assisted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...witnesses who are suspected of espionage or Communist activities, but who refuse to testify under the Fifth Amendment on the ground that their testimony might incriminate them . . . If the Government, under proper safeguards, is authorized to grant immunity to such persons, we believe we can obtain testimony which will assist in tracking down the higher-ups engaged in conspiracy to overthrow our Government by force and violence...
...Kyung Soo finally made it. Last week the tiny Korean war waif and his guardian, Chief Boatswain's Mate Vincent T. Paladino, arrived in the U.S. after being turned back once because Lee lacked a proper entry permit (TIME, Nov. 2). With a big assist from the Navy, the four-year-old Lee and Chief Paladino went back to Tokyo, got a valid visa and made the trans-Pacific flight once more. In Hawaii, before winging on to his new home, Lee was welcomed with a jar of kimchi (Korean pickled cabbage), which he ate, and a pair...
...Films has set up an arrangement by which it could help other organizations wishing to show films. "We don't want a monopoly," Charles G. Kadison, Jr. '55, Ivy Film Cinema director, said last night. "We are prepared to help and assist any undergraduate group desiring to exhibit films and, if necessary, we will relinquish some of our scheduled dates to them...
...other hand, if they don't want to go to all this trouble, or if they don't have experience in motion picture exhibiting, they can come to us. We will be too glad to assist them--without charge...
Aleksandr Borodin's first musical since Prince Igor hit the boards in 1890 is an entertaining show, in spite of some remarkably shoddy ingredients. Unlike Igor, Kismet's big assist comes from Minsky rather than Rimsky. With the vigorous cootch dance that shocked Elinor Hughes on opening night, bare-tummied slave girls paraded "for sale or for rent," and a number of jokes like, "Call me in the harem; I'll be lying down there," Kismet is often indistinguishable from Harem Nights at the Old Howard. Further debits are abominable lyrics ("We'll coo adicu without undue ado"), a script...