Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...additional $70, missing from film proceeds after two previous performances, is still unaccounted for, however. Police said they were satisfied the suspect in the last theft did not commit the other...
...McCarran Act (incorporating part of the Internal Security Act of 1950) added only a few more types of travelers to be barred, notably aliens who were or had been Communists and aliens who intended to commit any "immoral sexual act" in the U.S. But the McCarran Act specified that henceforth alien crew members, t00,1) must have individual visas, and 2) must subject themselves to all the questions other travelers are asked. The Department of State said it would take one to two years to add another 100 consular officials to its foreign service to be able to handle...
...Very Unkind." Suave Elpidio Quirino apparently has no intention of stepping down to make way for Magsaysay. "Doctor Laurel," he said sneeringly of Laurel's proposition, "always presumes that I will commit fraud. Very unkind of him." Quirino obviously wants to vindicate himself and his administration at the polls. Some of his followers in outlying provinces have been anything but upright, and must, indeed, regard with great fear the prospect of a change in administration after which they would probably be investigated and would possibly be jailed. A master political strategist, Quirino is busily playing up Laurel...
Since Koestler's Darkness at Noon, the Western world has been able to understand, however dimly, the motives that make loyal Communists confess crimes they did not commit. Since the trials of Cardinal Mindszenty and Robert A. Voge-ler, the Western world has also come to realize that relentless and refined pressure on body & mind can make the firmest anti-Communist admit to outlandish offenses. What still remains puzzling is why Communist trials, so carefully stage-managed as spectacles, can be so blatantly inept as to strain the credulity of a high-school boy. Did the Communists really expect...
U.R.D. Chief Jovlto Villalba and five colleagues were summoned to the office of Pérez Jiménez' Minister of Government. After a two-hour session during which Villalba stoutly refused to commit U.R.D. assembly members against a boycott until after a party convention in January, secret police seized the six men at the minister's door, held them incommunicado overnight, and next morning shipped them by government plane to Panama. Handed their passports in mid-air by the pilot, the U.R.D. leaders were dumped at Panama without money, a change of clothes or even their toothbrushes...