Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Denmark's Hansen, 51, actually came to the U.S. to attend a friend's wedding in Manhattan, traveled on to Washington for a 30-min. White House call and a cornerstone ceremony at the new Danish embassy in Dumbarton Oaks. Hansen made a point of sending a get-well message to John Foster Dulles. Unmentioned, but appreciated by the Secretary of State: Hansen recently was found to have throat cancer, apparently conquered it with an operation last October...
Slipper & Smoking Jacket. Persons' office looks more like a den (a tiger skin, two mounted bonefish, his two-starred major general's flag) than a command post of Government. There he operates with a sort of slipper-and-smoking-jacket informality. He still makes his own telephone calls to Congressmen; no Senator is ever kept hanging on the wire by a secretary. He takes virtually every incoming call ("When I get to Arlington National Cemetery," he sighs, "I'll stop taking them"), even encourages the last little argument, sometimes past the point of productivity. To Persons...
...Soviet control of East Germany and of Eastern Europe is such a clear fact of life, as Khrushchev likes to call it, why does Khrushchev care so much whether it is formally acknowledged by the West? Obviously, such recognition would give the final stamp of legitimacy to Soviet colonialism. By destroying all hope in the conquered lands, the West could indeed relax tensions for Russia, but at a cost of weakening itself...
...fascinated by newspapers ("I like the glamour"), has memorized such a store of data about the nation's press that he can often calculate within minutes whether or not to buy: in 1955 he decided to pay $5,500,000 for the Portland Oregonian after a single phone call. Only two of his 14 papers were solidly in the black at purchase (the Oregonian and the Birmingham News); now all are making money...
Imaginative people have mulled the idea for years. Novelist Arthur Conan Doyle, who visualized the earth's shell as a living creature, made his fictional Professor Challenger poke a sharp drill eight miles down, called his story When the World Screamed. AMSOC's goal is to pierce the Mohorovicic discontinuity, which scientists call the Moho for short...