Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...least 10,000. The party began special preparations to submerge in 1948. One John Lautner, a former Communist who was expelled in 1950, has testified that he was ordered to draw up an elaborate system for underground operations should the party be outlawed. Lautner drew up a familiar but effective scheme in which underground members were organized in cells of three, with contacts so arranged that each member would know only the members of his own cell and three other members. New identities for -party leaders were created, and it was suggested that party leaders buy and operate small suburban...
...wish to be an alarmist, but these space travelers are going to bring an end to the world for the simple reason that they are overlooking a principle of physics familiar to any high-school boy, i.e., "action equals reaction." . . . The same principle would be involved in a space ship leaving earth. Smalt as it would be in relation to the earth's mass, the rocket blasts would be sufficient to knock the earth slightly out of kilter in the delicate balance between centrifugal force and gravitation which now keeps our planet from either whirling loose from the solar...
Invited to Sit Down. When Taylor took over the Metropolitan in 1940, the great museum needed a shakeup. The golden age of the great benefactors, like J. P. Morgan and Jacob Rogers, had filled it with treasures, but many trifles had accumulated as well, and the public was more familiar with its exterior than its inside. "My job," says Taylor, "was to try, without causing any palace revolutions, to look to the future rather than the past...
Critics of the Truman Administration have often complained that U.S. foreign aid agencies are overstaffed and duplicate each other's work. Last week this familiar charge was raised again in a report giving a businessman's view of the situation. Said the report: "We have too many people and too many agencies in Western Europe . . . There are at the moment four men each with the title of 'Ambassador' in Paris . . . We still have Mutual Security Agency missions in some countries to which we are not now and for some time have not given aid." Said...
...familiar pilot was back at the controls of RKO Pictures last week. Howard Hughes, who sold control of the studio only two months ago for $7,093,940 to a group headed by Chicago Promoter Ralph Stolkin, moved back into control without putting up any cash. Noah Dietrich, Hughes's right-hand man and executive vice president of Hughes Tool Co., is expected to become RKO president. With Dietrich and two other satellites on the five-man board, Hughes has complete control, although the Stolkin group still holds the majority (29%) stock interest...