Word: group
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Acheson. Two days later, before an applauding group of NATO parliamentarians in Washington, Acheson implied that the Russians are interested principally in survival for Communists. "It is so easy to confuse or to use this word 'negotiation' as a cover for a surrender ... If to negotiate means to put the fagade of consent upon a defeat, then I think it is not something which should recommend itself to us . . . The essential thing is what you confer about-not whether you should confer but what you confer about." And what the U.S. is being asked to confer about...
Murphy was never found, but Charlie Porter found his role. After declaring war on Dominican Dictator Rafael Trujillo, he next turned his attention to seething Cuba. When Fidel Castro invited a group of U.S. Congressmen to Havana on an expenses-paid inspection tour, only Porter and Harlem's Adam Clayton Powell, another have-tux Congressman, accepted. But Castro turned out to be a disappointment ("I've urged him from the first to shave his beard," says Porter), and Porter thereupon looked around for new worlds to explore...
...Cambridge-educated King, brooding in his bungalow palace on a hilltop near Kampala on his birthday eve, had other things on his mind. Summoning Uganda's Anglican Bishop Leslie Brown and a selected group of government ministers and relatives, the King presented the testimony of palace servants. Their story: that very night they had caught the King's wife, Queen Damali, and the King's brother, Prince Juko, in the shrubbery of the palace grounds. Worst of all, Prince Juko had been clad only in underpants. The King sternly announced that Queen Damali was to be confined...
Sullivan confirmed yesterday the group's plan for use of the Stadium if the tax-exempt status of the land is threatened by rental to a professional organization. His group, he said, would try to contribute a large amount in the University's name to the United Fund or a similar charity and use the Stadium without charge...
...defense remains essentially the same as last year, the only exception being the replacement of Dick McLaughlin by Dave Crosby. Captain Mike Graney, Bob Anderson, and Greg Downes round out the group...