Word: candidates
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Private party reports, filtered out through Hong Kong last week, told in the Communists' own unintentionally candid words how things have been going wrong: "The production sentiment of the peasants . . . lacks stability, and their understanding of the new production relations ... is still obscure...
...bungling in the Peress case and pledged correction of the procedures which brought it about. Unappeased, McCarthy .called Brigadier (General Ralph Zwicker, commander of Camp Kilmer, N.J., where Peress had been stationed, to the stand. Zwicker, trying to protect his superiors, gave some answers that were less than candid. McCarthy, lashing out, made the outrageous suggestion that Zwicker, an officer with a line combat record, was "not fit to wear that uniform." Zwicker had been insulted, although not publicly pilloried; the hearing was closed, and the insults first came to light through Army channels...
...Louis Post-Dispatch, where he had been a staffer for 18 years before leaving to start his column in 1944. United Features will continue to syndicate his P-D stories three days a week, but Childs will be paid by the PD, not the syndicate. Childs had a candid explanation for his return to the PD. Says he: "There's a terrible danger of becoming a stuck whistle as a columnist...
Last week, after nine years of development work. Zeiss brought out a new camera with which it hopes to regain leadership in the high-quality candid-camera market. From its $2,000.000 plant in Stuttgart the first production models of the Contaflex were shipped to the U.S.A precision instrument with watchwork-size screws and springs as delicate as a snail's antenna, the 35-mm. Contaflex weighs only 18 oz.. v. 34½-oz. for the Rolleiflex and 29^ oz. for the Leica. It combines the simplicity of operation of the Contax with the easy focusing and accurate...
...dominating concern for tiptoed entrances and exits, the emphasis on leakproof caskets, and the display of the physical remains artfully improved by cosmetics and specially tailored casket apparel, represent essentially a reversal of Christian belief and its candid committal of the material body to ashes and dust...