Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Familiar Issue. This principle has long been a highly practical limitation on the activities of congressional committees. Many Presidents, from Washington to Truman, have vigorously asserted it, and Eisenhower's Administration continues to maintain that the Congress has no right to read all executive-branch papers, or learn about all executive-branch conversations...
...taxes, Racketeer Frank Costello, 63, got the bill. Federal Judge John F.X. McGohey sentenced him to five years, $30,000 in fines. Costello, his eyes red from weeping, had already indicated that he had learned his lesson-or, at least, one lesson. "Remember this," he told reporters in his familiar rasp. "When you spend money, spend cash and don't spend checks...
Reporters who cover international conferences are somewhat like golfers or tennis players who follow the tournament circuit. They are constantly running into familiar faces, former opponents and old friends under new circumstances. They also find some of the same frustrations...
TIME Correspondent John Beal, a veteran of international conferences, is a case in point. At Geneva, Beal found some familiar faces in the Chinese delegation. The first was Chou Enlai, Red China's Premier, Foreign Minister and head of the Geneva delegation. Beal had last dealt with Chou in Nanking in 1946. At the time. Beal was on a leave of absence from TIME to serve as an adviser to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek during the period of the Marshall mission. Beal got to know Chou well during his China stint. "It was there," says he, "that I learned...
...from ten to 20 painstaking autopsies are performed; each body is carefully examined not only for poisons but for hidden signs of wounds, or for internal evidence of strangulation (which may have been committed without the slightest bruise on the neck). Blood groupings studied include not only the familiar A, B, AB and O, but esoteric fractions which give a total of 50,000 or more possible combinations...