Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just 22 hours before the anniversary of the day on which the North Koreans crossed the 38th parallel, Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Jacob Malik faced a microphone on the U.N.'s Price of Peace program. His text clanked along on familiar Communist lines until, at the end of the broadcast, came the words that caused the world to prick up its ears: Russia was proposing a Korea armistice. Did it mean that the Communists had had enough...
...teach and advocate violent overthrow of the U.S. Government. They were the second echelon of the party's high command. Presumably they would take up the U.S. party reins when the eleven Communist bosses (convicted of similar charges in 1949) are sent off to prison. Among them were familiar figures: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, 60, national committee member and New York Daily Worker columnist; Party Theoretician Alexander Trachtenberg, 65, a product of Russia and Yale; Simon Gerson, 41, onetime candidate for New York City councilman and longtime party newspaperman...
...Pentagon, now as familiar an address around the world as Whitehall, 10 Downing Street or the Quai d'Orsay, is a vast concrete and limestone materialization of the military mind. Like the military mind, it inspires awe, often admiration, sometimes exasperation. It is simple in concept and organization, infinitely complex in detail; a marvel of systematic sense when the system is mastered, a mire of confusion when it is not. It is the brain of the U.S.'s armed might. Through its radio antennae its nerve ends reach to a bloody hill in Korea, to Eisenhower...
...would support Congressman Hale Boggs in the 1952 race for governor. Boggs, who is young himself (37), won his Congress seat in 1946 on an anti-Long reform ticket. It was one more sign that Russell Long was determined not to be a chip off the old block. Senators familiar with Huey's demagogic ways are impressed by Russell's dogged and unflamboyant performance as a Senator and his hankering for respectability. Russell, though he still reveres the memory of his father, has not even been speaking to Uncle Earl of late...
...Other familiar French figures to whom the day brought victory: able Foreign Minister Robert Schuman (MRP); Former Premier Georges Bidault (MRP); Minister of National Defense Jules Moch (Socialist). Also elected were two strays from France's darkest days: Munich-going Edouard Daladier (Radical) and Paul Reynaud (Independent), Premier at the time of the fall of France...