Word: fostering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...right hand man, added: "A country-club quartet-a small clique of self-appointed and self-anointed men who have never exposed themselves to the mandate of a national election-now rules the White House and runs our nation. These men-Sherman Adams, Charles Wilson, George Humphrey and John Foster Dulles-are the Richelieus and Rasputins of 20th century America...
Before the President boarded the Columbine for a two-hour flight toward his Georgia vacation last week, he called Secretary of State John Foster Dulles into a 30-minute huddle over the rapidly tightening tension between Egypt and Israel in the Middle East. Together they blocked out a statement of the U.S. position. Ike mulled it over again as he flew south, ordered it issued (and copies sent to Israel and Egypt) after checking over a final draft in his vacation office at the Augusta National Golf Club...
...appointed guide in charge of tact. Except for a wartime tour of duty with the Navy, he has been with NBC ever since, and believes that he is still dealing largely in tact. Some of his decisions depend on sensitivity (the words, offensive to Negroes, of such Stephen Foster songs as Old Black Joe and Massa's in de Cold Ground have not recently been heard on NBC); some depend on horse sense (in the past year the word "hell" has been approved on ten shows, the word "damn" on seven shows, but the expression "God damn" went over...
Louis M. Bell, John R. Eastling, Robert R. Foster, Edward L. Francis, Jr., John Noble III (captain), David M. Skeels, Paul S. Striker, Richard F. Sullivan, Paul R. Toulmin (manager...
These various powerful themes do not always quite gee into one another in the crowded climax, but The Bold and the Brave is nevertheless a successful film of an unusually serious kind. In his direction, Lewis R. Foster has managed to make ideas as well as characters come clear, and when the lines are especially good, his actors tactfully subordinate themselves to what they are saying. Don Taylor and Wendell Corey play neatly in tandem as the cowardly hero and the heroic coward, and France's Nicole Maurey does something rare in dramatic history. She makes a believable human...