Word: clark
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...United States is in "deadly peril" of being forced under by "despotic dictatorship, as so many decadent democracies have been in the past," Senator Joseph S. Clark, Jr. '23 told the Harvard Young Democrats in Emerson Hall last night...
...Clark pointed to the historical examples of both the ancient Athenian and the modern Western European democracies, which "grew soft" and were consequently taken over by foreign dictators. America cannot afford to maintain this "complacency," he said...
...Clark only mentioned the name of Senator John F. Kennedy '41 of Massachusetts as a possibility. He admitted that the nomination of a liberal might cause the Southern Democrats to "bolt the party," but added, "There are a lot worse things than being split." He concluded, "We have to take a good, strong position on civil rights...
...little less than a year ago, TIME Correspondent Edgar Clark watched Soviet tanks crawl into Budapest, dodged bullets in Budapest's Szena Square when 2,000 students overturned streetcars to use as fragile barricades against the Russian guns. Last week, back on a brief visit granted by the Communist government, Correspondent Clark reported on Budapest one year after...
Ludwig's personal fortune has been estimated as high as $350 million, including a 197-ft. $2,000,000 yacht, the Danginn, on which he has entertained celebrities ranging from Clark Gable to Saudi Arabia's King Ibn Saud. Aside from the yacht, Ludwig's only hobby is making money. To that end, he once ordered his designers to work out a way to carry oil in tankers' big hollow masts. When this proved impractical, Ludwig simply ordered his ships built from then on with no masts at all-just pipes to carry navigation lights...