Word: findings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rigged quizzes are nothing new-they have been going on ever since Rumpelstiltskin. The only one who came to any harm was Rumpelstiltskin himself, who had posed the question to the queen: "If you find out my name, then you shall keep your child." Her messenger gave the queen the answer, and Rumpelstiltskin tore himself in two-everybody else lived happily ever after. There must be a moral in that somewhere...
...paining pinch of Anderson's insistence on balanced budgets calls him "one of the very ablest men in public life during the past 20 years." Adds another Cabinet member: "In this Washington scramble, the most refined form of cannibalism ever devised, it's just about impossible to find anybody who has anything nasty to say about Bob Anderson." Says Economist Gabriel Hauge, White House economic adviser from 1953 until last year: "Intellect, character, dedication-these are words that it is almost embarrassing to use today. Cynics have all but destroyed them. But I have to say them about...
Adenauer himself was reported to be shocked and angered to find that his ally De Gaulle had arranged Khrushchev's visit to Paris without first consulting him. Although Adenauer had discussed and approved in advance the French President's moves to block an early summit, he was finding De Gaulle a difficult ally. He had been troubled when De Gaulle pulled his Mediterranean navy out from NATO control. He was profoundly embarrassed when De Gaulle remarked that the Oder-Neisse line between East Germany and Poland should be Germany's permanent eastern frontier. Recently, German dignity...
...India was getting around the world. In Moscow, instead of siding with his Communist partner, Nikita Khrushchev was urging both sides to embrace and make up. The remote land is not worth fighting over, said Khrushchev at a Moscow reception, though "give a general any situation and he will find strategic significance in it. I don't trust generals' appraisal of strategic significance...
Sixty-Two Cheers. Any sign by Nehru that he was determined to resist Chinese encroachment would obviously find his people behind him. In fact, some were well ahead of him. Last week a crowd of 300 university students paraded to Nehru's home demanding the dismissal of unpopular Defense Minister V. K. Krishna Menon because of his "brazenfaced defense of Chinese aggression in Tibet." Menon, who has been in New York attending the U.N. General Assembly, flew home at week's end to give his counsel to Nehru...