Word: forma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Assembly jabbed perfunctorily at the tender old question of Red China's admission to the U.N. But this year India's V. K. Krishna Menon, whose government is unhappy about Red China's aggressive moves along India's northern frontier, put up only a pro forma fight for Peking. With a sigh of relief, the Assembly quickly adopted a U.S. resolution barring Communist Chinese membership by practically the same vote as last year...
...Tennessee's Senator Estes Kefauver is fighting the nomination of sometime (1953-58) Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis L. Strauss as Commerce Secretary, has requested a hearing during the Senate Commerce Committee's pro forma session on the nomination. Kefauver, aiming to keep the home folks happy on a hot local issue, contends that Strauss violated federal law five years ago by leading the AEC into an ill-starred private-power contract that boomeranged into the Dixon-Yates controversy. Kefauver's hopes of heading off Senate approval of Strauss are slim: not even so staunch a Strauss...
...sooner was Mark Hatfield elected Governor of Oregon last month than the energetic young (36) Republican dashed off a pro forma request to Oregon's eccentric Democratic Senator Wayne Morse. Said Hatfield: Would Morse, as senior member of the state's congressional delegation, arrange a conference so that Governor and delegation could discuss federal-state problems? Replied Wayne Morse: No, nothing could come of such a meeting. Undaunted, Hatfield went ahead and held his own man-to-man conferences. Last week he worked around to the other half of the Morseberger senatorial team, Morse's onetime prot...
...rules of retiring from high Administration office, Assistant Labor Secretary J. (for nothing) Ernest Wilkins should have dropped by the White House, received a pro forma pat on the back and presidential thanks for faithful performance. But Wilkins, due to retire for "reasons of health," last week riddled the ritual: no sooner had he got his backslap and thanks from Dwight Eisenhower than he blurted that his high blood pressure had little to do with his leavetaking, that he really did not want to resign. The real reason behind his retirement: a continuing clash of personalities and philosophies with...
...they are excluded; and they would hardly welcome Khrushchev's designation of Nehru as the appropriate man to represent Asia. Not only did the Mao-Khrushchev talks kill the U.N. summit conference; they also involved Khrushchev in a display of belligerence that went far beyond his usual pro forma reminders of Russian military power. The communiqué itself was disfigured by a gratuitous threat "to wipe out clean the imperial aggressors and so establish everlasting peace." And on the heels of this saber-rattling, Peking calculatedly added to the rustle of tensions by moving MIG-17 jet fighters into...