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...years as a civil servant. The time for a national election drew nigh, and Tory Howard Green, who eventually followed Pearson as External Affairs Secretary, accused him of "knifing Canada's best friends in the back" over Suez. That was the first taste that Pearson had of the blunt world of politics. Within six weeks after the Nobel award, the high point of his life turned into...
What the Guild wanted was an "agency shop" in which commercial employees who did not join the Guild would be required to ante up a "service fee" equivalent to regular dues. The Guild's chief opponent was blunt, outspoken Editor Louis Seltzer of Scripps-Howard's Press. "The people who do the creative and objective work on our papers." said he, "should not be required to be members of outside organizations-religious, capital or labor-or subject to their dictates." By the time the Guild finally approved its new contract in February, Seltzer had won his point. Commercial...
...Exploitation of Man." Perhaps inevitably, Oxnam developed a fairly wide circle of enemies. He riled businessmen with his comments on the inequities of capitalism, stirred a number of Catholic bishops-including New York's Francis Cardinal Spellman-to public protest by his angry, blunt attacks on the political aims of Catholicism. Yet his opponents never questioned his moving belief in the brotherhood of man under...
Bare Skeleton. The building has the blunt honesty which decrees that, inside and out. the skeleton must be left bare. The surface of the reinforced concrete is intentionally left unfinished for texture, though it is not as rough and pitted as the façades of the buildings in the Indian provincial capital that Le Corbusier built at Chandigarh. Interior pipes are not only exposed but accented in green paint, like streaks of emerald against the white walls. Even the heating machinery stands exposed throughout the building, often recalling the boiler room of a ship...
...blared out President Kennedy's Thursday press conference, 14 Harvard and Radcliffe delegates to the Mid-Atlantic States model U.N. General Assembly entered Russia's ornate Washington embassy for a briefing on Soviet policy. Besides the President they heard a quiet and lucid account of Soviet policy interspersed with blunt references to American politics and Soviet power...