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Such matters were grist for the congressional mill, but they hardly stacked up as a solid campaign"But none of these mistakes adds up to scandal, or even superficially documents such wild charges as Kefauver's that the President had to cancel the Dixon-Yates contract because it was be coming more scandalous, more smelly, all the time . . . When Memphis, in June 1955, announced it had arranged to build its own power plant at the expense of local basic points he taxpayers, made the in 1952 President...
Today Pickett thinks of these years as so much amateur grist to the mill. His real entertainment came while on the U.S.O. tour, when he wrestled under professional rules...
...readily with TV, the Motion Picture Association of America took a deep breath and let out a notch or two in Hollywood's self-censorship production code. Permitted in future films are such expressions as "hell," "damn," "fanny," "nerts." Miscegenation "within the limits of good taste" is lawful grist for filmmakers. Even jokes about traveling salesmen and farmers' daughters are permissible, if properly bleached...
...State John Foster Dulles received an urgent message from Mendes-France: Please come to Geneva for a clarifying talk about Franco-American differences. Dulles flatly refused. To come to Geneva only to "walk out" again after his conversations, he felt, would damage the already weakened French position and provide grist for the Red propagandists. But Mendes is a persistent man; he countered with a second invitation: Why not meet him in Paris? After 45 minutes of mulling it over with President Eisenhower. Dulles accepted, left that same evening without going home to change for the trip...
...argues for free enterprise. They say that it is the responsibility of each student to make himself appealing enough to the club committees to receive at least one bid that he wants. If the student cannot even take that much trouble, this view point reasons, he is no fit grist for the social mill, and deserves to be excluded. The other school of thought, the 100 per centers, say that natural selection is fine--up to a point. But they insist that all Princeton men are entitled to membership in the only real social force at the college, and that...