Word: berkey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Supporting Argument. In Los Angeles, Deputy County Assessor Bernard Berkey appeared before a group of other assessors, failed to get the reduction he wanted on his own property despite his plea: "If the termites in my 36-year-old home were to stop holding hands the house would fall down...
Time Limit! (by Henry Denker and Ralph Berkey) is an effective thriller with a head in its tail. For most of the evening a flashback melodrama about a U.S. Army officer who went over to the Communists in a Korean prison camp, it winds up in what Balzac called "the trenches of the intellect," with a barrage of moral and mental queries...
...drama dealing with war psychology and ethics, Time Limit is not just another drama of this sort. Focusing their attention on the very current issue of brainwashing, playwrights Henry Denker and Ralph Berkey make distinctive contribution to a crucial problem of modern ethics...
Died. Charles P. Berkey, 88, topflight U.S. geologist, Columbia University's Newberry professor emeritus of geology since 1941, expert consultant in the building of Hoover and Grand Coulee Dams and of Manhattan bridges and tunnels, chief geologist in the 1925 Gobi expedition of the American Museum of Natural History; in Palisade...
...weeks ago gave its official nod of recognition to the state of Viet Nam, which the French had sponsored in Indo-China under former Emperor and reformed playboy Bao Dai. Last week ships of the U.S. Seventh Fleet, commanded by Vice Admiral Russell S. Berkey, steamed through the South China Sea in a show of support for Bao Dai. Two destroyers, the U.S.S. Stickell and the U.S.S. Anderson, tied up at the capital of Saigon while Admiral Berkey paid a courtesy call on Bao Dai (see cut). The U.S. aircraft carrier Boxer sent her planes over Saigon...