Word: backgrounds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paper Tiger. Dulles went upstairs to a room crowded with 42 correspondents, adjusted his steel-rimmed glasses, and read the Newport Warning straight through. Then he made the message even plainer in a "background briefing" under the standard ground rule that he would be quoted only as an unnamed "high official," until, two days later, angry ex-Secretary of State Dean Acheson announced to one and all the identity of the briefing officer...
...background of the conversation (recorded, unknown to Stempel, in Enright's Madison Avenue office on March 7, 1957) remains murky. But it is plain that some time before, Stempel threatened to "expose" Enright. It is equally plain that Enright is willing to go to considerable expense and effort to calm Stempel down. Items from the sound track...
What of the Others? How much credence should cancer victims and their kin give to the Murray report? Experts on both sides of the border were puzzled to answer. Despite Dr. Murray's standing as a surgeon, he has little background in immunology. And some immunologists said flatly that his method would not work. U.S. critics called Dr. Murray's report superficial, wanted to know why it covered only 91 cases though he had begun treatment on 233. They also wanted many more details than he had supplied to be sure that all patients had been...
...painting that it became a royal favorite for two generations; it now hangs in Madrid's Prado. Scholars have long since identified the room Velàsquez pictured as one in Madrid's Alcazar. They recognized the painting hanging below the ceiling in the left background as the Pallas and Arachne originally ordered by Philip IV from Rubens in 1636 for the Torre de la Parada, the royal hunting lodge near Madrid...
...student loans of up to $1,000 annually for five years (repayable by eleven years after graduation). Cost: $295 million altogether for the next four fiscal years. Special consideration will be given to students who want to teach in elementary or secondary schools, and to students with superior background in or capacity for science, mathematics, engineering or a modern foreign language. Half the sum of loans will be forgiven to students who teach for at least five years...