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...King's murder. (Pridi has since turned up in Peking, leading a "Free Thai" movement blessed by the Communists.) In the years that followed, successive courts of inquiry tried to fix the blame for the King's death on other guilty parties to no positive avail...
...wrongdoing. It was on this motion that the McCarthyites based their fondest hopes; Dirksen had talked confidently of 30 or 35 favorable votes. While the clerk called the roll, South Dakota's Republican Senator Karl Mundt pranced up and down like a cheerleader, but to no avail. The resolution was defeated, 66 to 21, and the handwriting was on the wall...
...Those girls really appreciate learning something new," she said, beaming. "But they usually become hardened after a year--I guess they find other interests." Miss Clarke has suggested extending the gym requirement, but to no avail. She is now resigned to the fact that "Radcliffe does what Harvard does--regardless...
...proposals enthusiastically. Their passage seemed virtually assured until the alumni spoke out. Traditionally a powerful voice in Princeton affairs, they objected to ending the club system and generally to raising the necessary $2,000,000. Wilson took his campaign for the "quads" across the country, but to no avail. The trustees bowed to the alumni objections and shelved the plan...
Obviously glum about the defeat in Indo-China, John Foster Dulles looked into the future and thought that he saw a silver lining in SEATO. Said he: "If the free nations which have a stake in this area will now work together to avail of present opportunities in the light of past experience, then the loss of the present may lead to the gain of the future...