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"Of course I haven't made much of a study of Harvard," McCarthy said affably as he emerged from a two-hour briefing by U.S. attorneys in the Federal Building, "but that much hasn't changed." McCarthy arrived in Boston Sunday to testify at this morning's trial of Leon...
Mental Fig Leaves. Hero Brad is a paper shuffler at SHAEF, and a first lieutenant. Haunted by the glacial respectability of his New England future after the war, he wants to have an adulterous fling while he can. But his low-level imaginings rarely embrace anything more than a brief...
The words rebounded to a high mountain crag 85 miles away, where West Germany's vacationing Chancellor Konrad Adenauer had installed himself in the little village of Mürren, to be near the conference. From the start, West Germany had felt like a patient straining his ears while...
It was the first time that the rulers of Communist Russia had accepted an invitation to attend the U.S. Independence Day party. Ambassador Bohlen was away in Washington, briefing President Eisenhower for the Geneva conference, so Khrushchev bore down on Walter N. Walmsley Jr., Bohlen's deputy, and loudly...
Uniform of the day was the blue, brass-buttoned blazer and snappy nautical cap of the well-heeled yachtsman; the easy banter was the well-oiled chatter of pleasure-boat skippers out for a good time. But back of the byplay, the briefing session in the Travers Island boathouse of...