Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mark Fortune, who resigned last week as Cambridge's city planning director and Ferdinand Rousseve, chairman of the City Planning Board, refused to comment last night on charges by city councillors of "incompetence," "lack of loyalty to Cambridge," and "lack of cooperation" on the part of certain city planners. Fortune is an instructor in City Planning at the Graduate School of Design...
...That Is, Affirmative." First the President had a word to say about the annual fund campaign of the Red Cross, including the comment that "I could profitably use the whole half hour if I would try to express what I really believe about it." There was a nervous laugh in the room and a whispered "Please don't." After three minutes on the Red Cross, Ike spent a minute talking about the visit of Italy's President Giovanni Gronchi and Signora Gronchi. Then he wanted "to mention two bills that are before Congress," the farm program...
...tomb of the Unknown Soldier, and the National Gallery of Art stayed open after closing time to accommodate Gronchi's handsome signora. At the gallery Gronchi told his guides how much he admired its selections from the work of his countryman, Fra Angelico, and then he made a comment about the U.S. that was calculated to echo in Italy: "One visit like this is more than enough to dispel the erroneous idea prevalent in Europe that the American idea is to use money to get money. I find that, on the contrary, money is used to create and display...
...been so widely anticipated that the official announcement sold fewer extra papers than an unexpected no might have done. The day's most offbeat headline (over a huge picture of a grinning Ike): the New York Daily News's FORE! ! The most original comment ran on the Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser's editorial page. It was an uncaptioned photograph taken months ago at a prankish Arizona reception and blown up big. The picture showed Adlai Stevenson with a hangman's noose around his neck...
...Staff. Ridgway had sevely criticized the proposed 300,000 man cut in the Army personnel and had been attacked in return. When he left his post, he defended his position and the original size of the Army. Readings on both sides of the question are provided, with appropriate comment. These, as all the readings, are available to anyone who has use for them. Bundy and H. Bradford Westerfield, instructor in Government, use some of the seminar's material in their American foreign policy course--Government...