Word: franked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...modified plan was largely the brainchild of AEC Chairman John McCone, who outlined his proposals last January (TIME, Feb. 2), and got support from the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy. Young (34) Idaho Democrat Frank Church accepted them enthusiastically in a Senate speech last month. Tennessee's Albert Gore, in a well-publicized White House visit, urged the U.S. to confine the ban to atmospheric tests, urged that the U.S. offer to suspend them unilaterally...
...talks were described as "cordial and frank," which is the diplomatic way of saying that neither side changed its position. For all his courtesy, Debré emphasized that the French are not so keen as the British to make concessions to the Russians, and are determined to avoid any appearance of dealing with Khrushchev behind the back of the West German government...
...attack on Pete Reider's two-year-old mile record of 4:11.0. Last week Benjamin obliterated Reider's two-mile mark with an outstanding 9:08.5 clocking. He also took 11.4 seconds off his best previous mile time with a 4:15.6 effort. Princeton's Charlie Hudson and Frank Gutmann, and probably the Crimson's Jed Fitzgerald will be Benjamin's opponents in his record attempt...
Crimson captain and number one player Frank Dodge shot a good three-over-par 75 only to lose to Jumbo John Donohue's 71. Donohue, an excellent performer in collegiate circles, helped his own cause by sinking two 20-foot putts...
...impose on realistic plays like Sweet Bird and Cat [on a Hot Tin Roof] an operatic style, I think it's dangerous and forced." The mainstream of American drama ("I hate to use phrases like 'mainstream,'" says Tynan) has to do with "observable reality. I think--let's be frank--that Kazan has moved too far away from that without the moral or social realities that are necessary to sustain it. Even in a play like Our Town ... the performances are realistic, and the dialogue is, and that is its strength, not its staging tricks. Splendid as they...