Word: diversionism
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What will probably be remembered as the most memorable scene of the McCarthy-Army hearings occurred on the 30th day. Army Counsel Joseph Welch was winding up his dogged cross-examination of Roy Cohn when Joe McCarthy caressed the McCarthy cheek with the stem of his glasses and commandeered the...
The role of army Captain William Paris calls for a degree of quiet insanity well-suited to both Sim and British comedy. As entertainment officer and Chaplain, Paris decides that the weekly groans of a string quartet are hardly a diversion for his troops. To his quest for a program...
Many politicians have come and gone since that day, but Georges Bidault has hung on. In the ten years-and 19 cabinets-since, he has been out of office only 33 months, has been Premier twice (for 14 months in all), Vice Premier four times, Defense Minister twice, Foreign Minister...
One day last October, Khokhlov was summoned to the headquarters of MVD's grim Ninth Otdel, the "terror and diversion" section now under the direct supervision of taciturn Alexander Panyushkin, onetime (1947-52) Soviet Ambassador to the U.S. He was told to proceed to Frankfurt, there to assassinate one...
Ambassadors at Work. Morrison-Knudsen leads them all. Last week an M-K crew was in the Brazilian jungle expanding the Cubatao hydroelectric project to give the city of São Paulo 400,000 more kilowatts of electric power. On the $20 million job, M-K men were boring...