Word: fabrications
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people are more qualified is not relevant. The fact is that President Eisenhower and Secretary of State Dulles tapped Bohlen for the job because they thought he was the best-equipped candidate they could find. Joe McCarthy has performed herculean service in the campaign to root subversives from the fabric of American Government. But he has not been alone in this challenging task. People like Bob Taft of Ohio and Bill Knowland of California and Homer Ferguson of Michigan trained their sights on the Communist menace long before...
...disappointing romance with Communism. Said Hicks: "... I would go along with Senator Taft in feeling that I would not want to make an absolute rule . . . There are situations in which it would be better to let a Communist keep his [teaching] job than to disrupt the whole fabric of academic freedom." But if a Communist brought his politics into the classroom, that was something else again. The trouble with all these investigations, Hicks continued, is that the emphasis always falls on "how much" the Communists have infiltrated American colleges. It might be better, said he, to emphasize "how little...
...Lenin was surely right when the end he sought for was to build his heaven upon earth and to write the precepts of its faith into the inner fabric of a universal humanity. He was surely right, too, when he recognized that the prelude to peace is a war ... It is, indeed, true in a sense to argue that the [Soviet] Russian principle cuts deeper than the Christian since it seeks salvation for the masses by fulfillment in this life, and, thereby, orders anew the actual world we know...
...going to be a quiet vacation for John Faus Kidder and his family. John Kidder, a 31-year-old supervisor in a Du Pont fabric plant, spent the first few days close to his home in Fairfield, Conn., lazing on the beach and playing golf. He washed and waxed the car. Then his wife and three children piled into it for the drive up the Hudson River valley to Troy, where they were going to spend a week with his parents. On the way, they stopped at Hyde Park and saw the grave of the nation's most famed...
...plugged a model of a Geodesic Dome into its landscape of Manhattan's West 53rd Street and drew as many as 2,000 spectators on a Sunday. This spring, the Ford Motor Co. will unveil a go-footer, made of such gossamer materials as aluminum spars, Orion fabric and Fiberglas, to enclose a large court in its Rotunda in Dearborn, Mich., as part of its soth anniversary celebration. This will bring this Fuller idea closer to practical use and success than most; it has hitherto been the fate of most of Bucky's dreams to blow up when...