Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kefauver, who has not announced his exact topic, will appear tonight in Boston and then proceed this weekend to New Hampshire, where he will seek support for the nation's first Presidential primary on March 13. In 1952 the Tennessee senator won the primary...
...advised that there will be no permanent need to resort to bottled liquids for water will be taken temporarily from a different pipe until this one can be repaired. This may however, take several days. At present, despite much open air bureaucracy, engineers are trying to determine the exact location of the break, while workmen continually dig. The search is complicated by high tension wires underground near the break, and "Those things can kill...
Bitter Man. Macmillan made no pretense that he was happy about his new job. "The exact opposite is the truth." he told his constituents rather bitterly. "I have only agreed at the personal request of the Prime Minister." Even in his brief term as Foreign Secretary, Eden had found him too independent-minded ("Macmillan has never taken kindly to his master's voice," observed the News Chronicle). Specifically, outspoken Harold Macmillan was much less optimistic than Eden about the value of negotiation with the Russians, was angrily ready to cancel or postpone next spring's scheduled visit...
...Finance Minister Ezio Vanoni created a stir by requiring all Italians to make out annual tax returns. Roberto Tremelloni, Finance Minister in the Scelba government, went even further. Tremelloni introduced a bill which would for the first time 1) require an oath in making out. returns, and 2) exact penalties for defrauding the government. His bill got nowhere. Not only was it resisted by Neo-Fascists and Monarchists, but it was repellent to the big-money backers of the ruling Christian Democrats. The bill languished in committee until one day last month, when Fellow Traveler Pietro Nenni, freshly returned from...
...Sprinkling of Blanks. Arriving in Los Angeles to speak at a fund-raising dinner for his Independence memorial library, Harry Truman was met at the airport by newsmen who asked what he thought about the chance that the Republicans might nominate Nixon for President. Truman's exact reply is a matter of controversy. The Los Angeles Times, with a liberal sprinkling of blanks, reported that Truman had said: "I don't like the - - --, and I don't care who knows it." The Los Angeles Examiner, with equal delicacy, quoted Truman as saying: "I don't even...