Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other star to testify was Admiral Arthur Radford, who retired in 1957 but came back recently as acting chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff while Air Force General Nathan Twining is recuperating from a lung cancer operation. Radford, 63, earns $12,000 a year as a director of the Philco Corp. (electronics), and about the same amount in retirement pay. The amount of influence exercised on Pentagon people, he said, "is very small-but I wouldn't say it doesn't exist." Besides, retired officers probably have less influence than most people think. "They are really...
...over. Slowly, almost reluctantly, the 50,000 or more New Yorkers drifted back to their cars and edged their ways homeward, drenched still by the humid pall, their senses once again dulled by New York's night heat...
...Edwin Youngblood, 38, eased his pickup truck along a sand-soft logging road one day last week. He sang out a warning to a gang of pulp cutters to take only the jack pine that rangers had paint-striped for cutting, told them to heave dead branches 50 feet back from the roadway, out of cigarette-throw range...
Recess was over, and the foreign ministers of East and West headed back to the rote and routine of Geneva. Most of them had sensibly spent the three-week holiday away from their books. France's Couve de Murville took a jaunt with President de Gaulle to Rome and Madagascar. The U.S.'s Christian Herter got in some sailing on the choppy waters of Massachusetts Bay. For Britain's Selwyn Lloyd there were long English weekends at Chequers. Even Russia's Andrei Gromyko presumably took some dour relaxation, though he also returned to Geneva with Khrushchev...
...Next in line for a thorough checking of their activities since 1947: Pakistan's politicians. Businessmen, currently operating under a promise of amnesty, have wisely poured into Pakistan tax offices to make a clean breast of their affairs and have forked up an astonishing $6,300,000 in back taxes...