Word: escapee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Congratulations to those readers who opposed the supporters of the Sane Nuclear Policy declaration [May 5]. As an escapee from Czechoslovakia, I was shocked to learn about people who are against nuclear tests; possibly these people prefer Soviet slavery? In an atomic war, one has the chance of victory-which, no doubt, will be yours-but if the Communists win, nobody will be able to escape to a free country any more. What would be left then? Suicide...
Last week Silverstein got it again. On antisubmarine maneuvers off Pearl Harbor, Commander Charles S. Swift, the skipper, looked up to see the sub Stickleback dead ahead at 200 yds. Stickleback had just made a simulated torpedo run on Silverstein, was supposed to have dived to a safe depth. Skipper...
"Shame to the Cause." Before his arrest, without a warrant, Alleg had been hiding out for months to escape internment after the banning of Alger Républicain, the Communist daily that he edited 1950-55. He wrote The Question four months after he was tortured, managed to smuggle it...
At last week's Cabinet meeting. President Eisenhower and Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson were all for a flat, unhedged stand against tax cuts. Others, including Vice President Richard Nixon and Labor Secretary James Mitchell, argued for an escape hatch by promising continuous review and possible reconsideration if the recession...
Sallie Bingham has struck a parting blow for crafts-manship, contributing a readable story about a girl's attempt to escape from her mother by living with a photographer in Paris. The only serious objection to her facile story is that she appears to use a narrative trick to conceal...