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...Communist Choibalsan died in the Kremlin hospital last January, but Moscow planned to keep a firm grip on the country he created. When the new Premier, U. Tsedenbal, arrived in Moscow last August, he was received with honors equal to those given Chinese Foreign Minister Chou Enlai. At the airport to shake the Premier's hand was Soviet Foreign Minister Vishinsky. Tsedenbal and the Russians went into a huddle and called a play calculated to dissolve any lingering impression that Outer Mongolia had traditional attachments to China...
...Polish-American audience that Eisenhower's American Legion speech had "aroused speculation here and abroad that if he were elected, some reckless action might ensue in an attempt to liberate the peoples of Eastern Europe from Soviet tyranny." Stevenson tore into this straw man, saying that the Soviet grip "upon your friends and relatives cannot be loosened by loose talk or idle threats [or] by starting a war which would lead to untold suffering." Toward the end of his speech. Stevenson said that he did not interpret Eisenhower's words in this warlike way but rather...
...place on the House Un-American Activities Committee, earnest Dick Nixon had quite a wrestle with himself. On such occasions, he paces up & down, lights one cigarette after another, talks to the ceiling, suddenly whirls around as if he were trying to catch his problem unawares with a new grip. The committee's reputation was low. Its chairman was J. Parnell Thomas, eventually to be indicted and jailed for fraud. Nixon's friend and fellow Congressman, California's Donald Jackson, recalls how Nixon came into his office and started pacing. "He felt the moral obligation to accept...
Nixon's main theme will be the main Republican theme: the need for a change. He will ask Americans to stop traveling the Democrats' route, and get on another train where the engineer has a firmer grip on the throttle, clearer ideas of where he is going...
...shallows of Nushagak Bay-a small (one-ton) beluga whale, come in to feed on salmon. It was not the first whale which had shied away from their "stethoscope": in earlier efforts the hunters had been unsuccessful. This time a husky cannery worker got a good grip on the patient : he drove home a pair of brass-headed harpoons wired to a portable electrocardiograph...