Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Libel in France. When Victor Kravchenko published the bestselling story of his career as a onetime Soviet bureaucrat, I Chose Freedom, a French Communist weekly called him a "liar" and a U.S. secret agent. Kravchenko sued for libel, and in a Parisian courtroom whose atmosphere often resembled a low-comedy brawl there was, nonetheless, enacted a deadly serious debate between the ideologies of two worlds. Largely because of impressive testimony given by a number of former inmates of Russian slave-labor camps, Kravchenko won his case and token damages of 3 francs. His second book, though ineptly written and frequently...
...CHOSE JUSTICE (458 pp.) - Victor Kravchenko-Scribner...
...year. Before 1,000 of his colleagues assembled for their yearly convention, he held up two issues of TIME, one with Actress Carol Channing on the cover, the other with President Truman. He asked a young lady from the audience to choose one of the magazines. She chose the Truman issue, and he folded it with the cover portrait inside and told her to hold it. Holding up the Channing issue for all to see, he folded it, slapped it against his side, opened it up again, and there was Harry Truman. The young lady thereupon found out that...
Most prominent of the extreme nationalists is Jose Laurel, Quirino's chief opponent in the last election and head of the Nationalist Party. Laurel had Huk support during the election. If he chose, popular Jose Laurel could be useful in an anti-Communist front against the Huks, but he refuses to cooperate unless Quirino's Liberal Party publicly admits that it cannot handle the job alone and publicly asks the help of the Nationalists...
Just two weeks before Harvard decided to try cricket again after a lapse of 43 years, Oxford and Cambridge Universities crossed paths for the first time in, of all things, a game of American softball. The "fixture," as Cambridge's Varsity Newspaper chose to call the contest, was staged at Grange Field Rugger Ground and it was largely the work of David E. McGiffert '49 which made the game possible. McGiffert, something of a fixture himself as left-fielder on the Eliot House softball team for three years, is now studying history at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, on a Lionel...