Word: founded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the inadvertent aid of the 1,100 newsmen in Geneva, most of whom found little to write about beyond tactical differences among the Western powers, the Russian ploy was successful enough to provoke London's BBC into an irate accusation that the West Germans were conducting a "whispering campaign" against the British delegation. But with the foreign ministers themselves, the Russian maneuver was a flat failure: Selwyn Lloyd argued the West's case as stoutly as anyone. When Gromyko approached Lloyd privately to reiterate Khrushchev's proposals for Berlin, Lloyd coldly replied: "If that...
...inventor trying to get his invention accepted, "but he exaggerated them too much." He said that he would like to meet Dudintsev, who once protested, "I feel a leading string on myself all the time.'' But, Khrushchev complained, whenever he was ready to receive Author Dudintsev, he found that he had to talk to some ambassador or other...
...Bertele's shop police found a highly efficient miniature radio and a collection of documents coded in wartime Resistance fashion, e.g., "The child of the desert goes well. He will come as arranged." Last week, in publicly charging Bertele (real name: Herman Boisselle), his wife Felicie. and Dopierala with collecting and transmitting secret military information "to an Eastern state," the D.S.T. made it clear that they had tripped up a Communist spy ring operating in NATO's capital...
...used non-violent resistence as a political weapon, he is difficult to accuse of treasonous activity--unless one pushes this concept to truly paranoid extremes. Like the recent de-integrating of four universities in South Africa, this move by the government represents an arbitrary limiting of intellectual activity rarely found outside of totalitarian countries...
...prolonged summer vacation." Actually, the professor has yet to experience full retirement. During fall term he had three graduate tutees, and this term he has been invited to read theses and conduct doctoral exams. His daily routine has been changed only by the fact that he has found time to accept invitations to lecture outside the University. He most recently was invited to deliver the Candler Lectures at Emory University. When he was still actively teaching, Professor Wolfson felt he couldn't afford the time away from Cambridge. He considers them a "good change," and feels that any professor...