Word: freshness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cover) Through the cloakrooms and corridors outside the chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives the seam-faced, stumpy, blue-eyed man moved restlessly, relentlessly. Trying to collar enough votes to sustain the presidential veto of a budget-busting. Democratic-sponsored rural electrification bill, he took fresh aim at each of his Republican colleagues. To one he snapped: "Don't you forget that in 1960 you're going to have to run on Eisen hower's record." To another he appealed: "This is a straight political issue. Are you going to let the Democrats get away with...
President Black, accompanied by his top aides, flew to New Delhi with fresh proposals aimed at a final settlement. If both sides could agree, the World Bank would help raise the estimated $600 million needed to put the plan into operation. One stumbling block is that India would have to put up a substantial part of the funds to build link canals and reservoirs in Pakistan to replace water that India diverted for itself. Still, as Black knew, New Delhi and Karachi are tired of a decade of bitterness, and some Indians and Pakistanis, watching Red China's actions...
...featuring a Skelton in every closet, this is the lightest, flakiest brand of pie in the eye. But as performed last week by imported British Comedian Dave King in his first show as Milton Berle's TV summer replacement (NBC, Wed., 9 p.m.), it seemed tasteful and gratifyingly fresh. A comedian who works primarily in pantomime, King is a kind of Jack Tati in his characterization of the well-meaning Englishman who really could cope with life except for the fact that the world itself is a little out of kilter...
Displaying a showman's neat touch, Kharlamov once produced Deputy Foreign Minister Valerian A. Zorin to field questions, later used the old politician's trick of calling a surprise session at noon in order to hit the afternoon papers with a fresh story (the claim that Russia would insist to the end on full participation for Communist Poland and Czechoslovakia). With such attractions, Russian briefings regularly attracted bigger audiences than those of the West...
...University and Massachusetts Halls. Though often well documented, their letters assumed a belligerent tone; when their efforts to elicit certain information were frustrated, the Veritas group resorted to polemic. Realizing their position and wanting to continue the fight, Kenneth Robertson and others decided that a completely new organization with fresh personnel might make more progress...