Word: board
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...indubitable capitalist (multimillionaire, onetime railroad board chairman...
...subject, the British argue that they had no option but to let him go where he wanted: to East Germany to rejoin his 84-year-old father, who is now professor emeritus of the Red-run University of Leipzig. After refusing to talk to newsmen in Britain, on board his plane or when he landed in East Berlin, Klaus Fuchs finally gave an interview to a London reporter who tracked him down at a vacation cottage near East Germany's Lake Wandlitz. Had he been decently treated in prison? "Yes." Was he still a Marxist? That, said Fuchs, should...
...rebels were still stubbornly refusing to be mopped up in the hills around Constanza; Dominican intelligence said it had learned that a new 1,000-man invasion force, financed with $8,000,000 provided by Cuba's Trujillo-hating Fidel Castro, was preparing to board a pair of U.S. war-surplus landing ships in Cuba's Oriente province for a new invasion. Feeding the fire at week's end, Cuba broke off diplomatic relations with the Dominican Republic and had its U.N. delegate announce that he would go before the U.N. to ask world action in support...
...Emergency. Ike's letter was an answer to a letter from McDonald, who was so anxious to have the Administration take a hand in negotiations that he asked the President to appoint a fact-finding board to look into the issues. Arthur J. Goldberg, the union's general counsel, phoned Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell in Washington while McDonald's let ter was still on the way, told him what was in it. Mitchell, who had been keeping in touch with both sides, got together with Vice President Nixon and White House Counsel Gerald Morgan and worked...
...type of Air Force plane, has been checked out to pilot the huge KC-135 jet tanker. Quesada wields more power than any U.S. air administrator before him: all the duties of the old Civil Aeronautics Administration, plus the safety-rule-making powers once held by the Civil Aeronautics Board...