Word: formful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First to place Acheson's criticism in a political context were not Republicans, but the liberal Democratic New York Post. Taking editorial issue with a byline story by its own Washington correspondent, William V. Shannon, who described the U.S.-Russian talks as nothing more than "another form of dithering by a weak, cowardly, reactionary Administration," the Post said: "We believe the issues [Shannon] raises are especially important because his position is undoubtedly shared by a number of Democratic leaders-most conspicuously, Dean Acheson-who seem so sorely tempted to 'open up' on the President and even...
McNichols fought Brown's endorsement plan at heated, late-at-night hotel suite talks, again at Brown's breakfast. The West, McNichols argued, should form a solid Democratic front on regional issues such as reclamation, but not on a candidate. When Brown saw that his bloc would not be a bloc, he backed down, retreated to the position that agreement on issues was all he had wanted anyhow, thereby escaped the public stigma of failure in his effort for endorsement...
...argued his case tnrough the ministry right up to De Virgilio, who had no recourse except to give him a final no. Then, as Rome's Il Messagero said, in the tormented mind of Galvino Lepori "our complex, cold bureaucracy took on flesh and blood in the form of De Virgilio...
Since January, a bewildering array of 60 political parties has emerged in the Congo. New groups and splinter groups form with such rapidity that one Congolese leader found that the party he heads had split in two while he was flying from Leopoldville to Brussels last week. The most powerful Congolese politician is Joseph Kasavubu, 42, one of Leopoldville's ten native commune burgomasters. But Kasavubu's Abako Party represents mostly the Bakongo people of the southwest, who want immediate independence only for themselves. Abako's chief rival is the National Congolese Movement Party, headed...
...double-thickness or deflector masks (TIME, March 2), Dr. Adams insisted that the fitted filter mask is the only sure preventive of bacterial infection spreading from doctor to patient. The model he favors comprises two layers of copper wire cloth (mosquito screening) with a layer of Fiberglas (in the form of Filter-down) in between. This filter, developed for the Atomic Energy Commission, contains no holes more than half as big as staphylococci, thus blocks their passage completely. Since the mask is molded snugly to the face, many surgeons fear that it will hinder their breathing. Not so, said...