Word: backgrounds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Milwaukee, home of some 7,000 Americans of Hungarian background, another plane brought a cargo of 73, fresh from the perilous escape across the border. Clutching their cheap cloth satchels, they shuffled gratefully to shelter. One boy, dressed in a knitted hat and an oversize leather coat, carried all his belongings in a paper bundle strapped to his back with brown twine. An old woman proudly displayed the packet of soil that she had dug from her garden...
...ambassador, Clare Luce began with a background as journalist, playwright and Congresswoman. Many skilled U.S. diplomats considered her experience insufficient for the Italy of 1953. They thought their doubts justified when Clare Luce, upon her arrival in Italy, warned of the "grave consequences" that might follow if Italian voters "should fall unhappy victims to the wiles of totalitarianism of the right or left." The wisdom of this apparent interference in Italian domestic politics is still hotly debated, although no one yet has been able to demonstrate that it did any harm...
...eyed British noblewoman pertly broke the ice one day, whereupon she was warmly and immediately reassured. Well-mannered and well-indoctrinated young embassy spear carriers were ever ready to convince their U.S. opposite numbers that they had really invaded Egypt to stop the Russians. The higher-ups concentrated on background briefing U.S. columnists and pundits-many of them still awallow in the wash of the sunken Adlai Stevenson-to the effect that Secretary Dulles had really been something of a failure (which was the British-French, as well as the sunk Stevensonian line...
Unions Grow Up. Though integrated Honolulu bears no love for Mississippi's Eastland, it recoiled next morning at a newspaper picture of Harry Bridges and Attorney General Sylva shaking hands while Jack Hall hovered in the background. Shocked, Governor Samuel Wilder King summoned Sylva to his office at Iolani Palace for a 20-minute lecture. The gist of his angry remarks: Sylva had no business honoring convicted Communist Hall, who was on bond pending an appeal "only because of the extreme leniency of American...
...current estimates, 200,000 more will be infected next year. To find out why, the American Social Hygiene Association announced that it will spend $92,000 on a wide-ranging study. Items to be investigated: teen-age sex behavior, relationships between VD and juvenile delinquency, social and economic background of VD victims...