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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lack of candor is not, however, a direct corollary of the fear of disagreeing with the head of the Foreign Relations Committee, the representative of the China Lobby, the lobbyist for the American Friends of the Middle East, or the Zionists. The real concern, and this is particularly true in the "trouble spot" areas--The Far East, the Middle East, and the Communist satellites--is that the report may go counter to an adopted party line in the State Department. Men and women who may not be afraid of the accusation of Communism do have a certain natural desire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Foreign Service Morale | 1/10/1957 | See Source »

...this year's Council members did not make their successful bids for reelection on the basis of their report program, but on the basis of having provided three direct benefits for the students: the Extension of House parietal hours to midnight on Saturday, the initiation of a mid-term vacation, and the institution of the Rides Service, all worthwhile achievements. Unfortunately, the mismanaged reports and the concrete reforms did not constitute the sum of Council activity. There were a number of items on the debit side which can be chalked up largely to the political nature of the body...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "... and the Democrats in 1924" | 1/9/1957 | See Source »

...street. Lieut. Moorhouse was not seen again. That night Commanding General Sir Hugh Stockwell sent out search parties to comb every house in the district, but they found no sign of the young lieutenant. Francis Moorhouse's first instinct was to seize a telephone and put in a direct call to Egypt's Strongman Gamal Abdel Nasser. It failed to get through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Kidnaped Lieutenant | 1/7/1957 | See Source »

Particle Wanted. Dr. Alvarez, spokesman for the group who made the discovery, wants to make plain that catalytic mesons do not offer direct means for releasing fusion energy in commercial amounts. There is no dependable source of mesons at present except giant machines like the Berkeley bevatron. Worse still, mu mesons are short-lived, decaying into other particles in two-millionths of a second, so they have little time to act as catalysts. If a longer-lived particle could be found that does the catalytic service, the reaction would look promising indeed. The Russian physicist Artemy Alikhanian claims to have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: New Nuclear Energy? | 1/7/1957 | See Source »

...FREIGHT combination service will be started by Greyhound Corp. To link 6,000 U.S. communities that do not have direct air freight, Greyhound will pick up and deliver packages of less than 100 Ibs. for nearest freight airport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Jan. 7, 1957 | 1/7/1957 | See Source »

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