Word: commitments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...youngster named Erich Reuthner joined the band and told his mates that his uncle had a cache of money at home. The Panther Bande surrounded the uncle's house, called out his name, and when he appeared, shot and killed him. Overcome by remorse. Erich tried to commit suicide by shooting himself in the stomach; in his hospital bed later, he told police all. A month later the Panthers were all in jail once more...
Around the Pentagon, as well as among flyers in Korea, there was considerable wisecracking about the offer. In Britain's House of Lords, an excitable Labor peer announced that he regarded it as dastardly to bribe the enemy to commit treason...
...fire question after question on Dulles' failure to stand behind Stassen. The President was calm. He didn't think that McCarthy was really trying to take over the executive's responsibility for negotiating international agreements. How could McCarthy or anyone negotiate if he had nothing to commit? He didn't think that McCarthy's act, even if it were an error, was serious enough to undermine the State Department's efforts. Perhaps Stassen meant to use the word infringement (instead of undermine), said the President. He was not unhappy with McCarthy or with Stassen...
...ensuing four days of conference were not all smiles. The U.S. was mainly interested in getting France to approve the European Defense Community treaty (TIME, March 30). The French, reluctant to commit themselves on a treaty that is far from popular in France (although it is a French creation), insisted that questions concerning the Saar must be settled first. At one conference, President Eisenhower reminded the French leaders that they had an external as well as an internal public-relations problem. A citizen of Texas, said Ike, had a hard time understanding why disputes over the Saar, an area half...
...Angels is one more comedy that tickles conventional morality with a straw and makes respectability turn out its pockets. But it is much less ironic or satiric than just gloriously improbable; it is a fairy tale in which people commit murder as though it were Drop the Handkerchief...