Word: candidate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...candid admission that the Eisenhower Administration is tailoring the nation's defense to budgetary cloth Engine Charlie added a reminder: with military technology speeding ahead (see below), a shrinkage in manpower does not necessarily mean a weakening of military wallop. "Numbers alone don't tell you the story," he said, "either for them...
...teeming souks and streets, the veiled Bedouin women greeting their first President with eerie, unearthly noises made, explained Huntley, by "bending their tongues back over their soft palates and screaming-making the tongues vibrate." The interview with Bourguiba was boiled down to 35 minutes, and the result was a candid, firsthand look at a handsome, vigorous personality who spent 27 years, half of them in jail or exile, freeing his country. After a warmup detailing his early, near-bloodless fight against the French and the ruling dynasty, Bourguiba said that French troops in Tunisia were "embarrassing" to him and "endangering...
...spit-&-polish naval attache who takes over the refloated ship after the Amethyst's captain dies of his wounds, Richard Todd is so convincing that the movie conveys a real-thing flavor. It car ries all the blood-and-sweat conviction of a candid film chronicle made on the spot...
...sternly guards his personal privacy, Dwight Eisenhower is remarkably candid on such personal matters as health and habits, which most Americans regard as nobody's business. Last week, asked in press conference by U.P. Newshen Pat Wiggins for presidential advice on how to give up smoking, Ike grinned and confessed: "Of course, I was a very heavy smoker, probably brought about through my life in the military and war, and all that I was asked to do was to be more moderate about it. No doctor ever told me I should stop. But for me it was easier...
...William J. Brennan, and last week Justice Brennan joined the liberal-tending War ren-Douglas-Black bloc to hold court-martial trials unconstitutional for overseas dependents. Reed was succeeded by Justice Charles Evans Whittaker, who did not participate in last week's decision. Harlan switched sides with the candid admission that time had given him "an opportunity for greater reflection.'' And Frankfurter, his mind finally made up. voted with last week's majority (but. like Harlan, only insofar as it affected capital cases). That left only two-Clark and Burton-where a year before had stood...