Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sylvia Berke, who was employed at Fort Monmouth in 1943. denied that she was a member of the Communist Party then. With her lawyer beside her, a study in distress, Mrs. Berke said that she was not a Communist last Sept. 15, but refused to say if she had been one Sept. 13. McCarthy told her that if she is fired from her position as a school clerk in The Bronx, she "might apply for a job over at Harvard-there seems to be a privileged sanctuary over there for Fifth Amendment cases...
...called "a sleazy character and an underground espionage agent for the Communists," refused to tell anything except his age-31. Four witnesses identified Hyman as a Communist. McCarthy produced records indicating that Hyman in the last two years had made nearly 500 telephone calls to U.S. defense installations, including Fort Monmouth...
...retired professors have been forced to take up odd jobs. One runs the local community-chest drive, another works for the Masons, still another serves as a part-time consultant to a big Colorado cattleman. The former head of the chemistry department has worked as a printer in a Fort Collins print shop, but to supplement his monthly $37.14, his wife must baby-sit. Professor G. A. Schmidt, author of six textbooks on agriculture, has worked as an 80/-an-hour land appraiser, and Entomologist Miriam A. Palmer, an expert on aphids, receives only $39.97 a month after 48 years...
...Dore Schary's Dream Wife were sure, expert comedies of a kind rarely made in the U.S. since the mid 30's George Stevens' Shane was a western evolved with loving care for the beauty of the land it was set in, and Escape from Fort Bravo took a fresh look at Hollywood's tired old Indian wars. Fred Zinne-man's From Here to Eternity did far more than the usual crude job of shoveling a bestselling novel through the censorship screen. Zinneman's epic is as moving a tale of men among...
JUNE-Sinner in Our Midst. In Fort Worth, while the Rev. Arizona Brisco, assistant pastor of the Rising Star Baptist Church, was waist-deep in the crowded baptismal pool, a thief made off with his trousers, wallet...