Word: boxing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Indictment. When the News called in independent toll-highway experts, the consultants reported tolls were collected on the Overseas Highway by the "cigar-box" method, which they called the "one for the bridge, one for me system...
...committee members had time to mull over Senator McClellan's motion. It soon became apparent that most of them did not quite understand what the motion meant. Did it mean that -as McCarthy chortled to newsmen-Joe had been handed the Army key to Pandora's box and would be allowed to dredge up from it all conversations relating, however remotely, to the Army's handling of Communists? Did not Joe's "chronological order" play take the future sequence of the hearings right out of the committee's hands? Did the motion assure-as some...
...hours later (by similar pre-arrangement). Precondition No. 2 was also met. From U.S. Ambassador C. Douglas Dillon came the text of the U.S. pledge to keep troops on the Continent so long as the threat to Western Europe continues (see box...
...House of Commons, Clement Attlee, leader of the Opposition, had just gravely accepted Foreign Secretary Eden's announcement of the Southeast Asia agreement. Suddenly, from the farther end of the Labor front bench, burly Nye Bevan came scrambling over his colleagues' feet to reach the dispatch box. Almost stepping on Attlee's toes physically, as he was in fact politically, Bevan flatly defied his party's leader. The Asia agreement, he cried, was "a surrender to American pressure," and it "will be deeply resented by the majority of people in Great Britain." The agreement was framed...
...which sponsors Edward R. Murrow's See It Now (CBS-TV), is happy over the benefits of Murrow's battle with Senator Joe McCarthy. The show's audience has jumped from 9,000,000 to 30 million, and Alcoa and CBS have received 47,000 letters. Box score: more than four to one in favor of Murrow...