Word: hardes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Camp David decision, he had seen what was coming and, in high good humor, summoned newsmen to the Kremlin for his second press conference since taking power (see FOREIGN NEWS). He told how his six-month deadline for the West to meet his Berlin demands had not really been hard and fast, and he accepted-without being formally notified-the May 11 date for the foreign ministers' conference, probably in Geneva. But real results, he said, could only come at the summit: "Let's put in the heavyweights...
...action already agreed on. But when Dwight Eisenhower put onetime Under Secretary of the Army William H. Draper Jr. in charge of a committee last November to survey the vast U.S. foreign-aid program, the roll call of blue-ribbon committee members * made it clear that the President wanted hard answers. Last week in the Draper committee's preliminary report, he got three that nobody quite expected. Said the committee...
Planner Lemnitzer sees eye-to-eye with outgoing Max Taylor, wants a mobile, hard-hitting and lightweight Army, with more airlift and more manpower. Such wants are exceedingly unpopular in the non-Army reaches of the Pentagon. But whether Lemnitzer gets them, military men are already betting he will be a future chairman of the Joint Chiefs...
Recently formed, the Socialist Club lists 30 to 40 members--including a dozen grad students--of whom 20 are "hard core." Its purpose is to study socialism as a body of thought which can be applied to many problems," said Jerry Shapiro '61 president. So far, attractions have included speeches by an "independent socialist" economist, and the editor of a Socialist newspaper...
...book--to this Montrealer, at least-seems to lie in MacLennan's incredible sympathy for his characters and their city. If in advanced middle age they now appear flabby and indifferent as they quietly sip Dewar's Best-Ever-Bottled, they exist, at least. MacLennan has explained how hard knocks made them the way are. Hard knocks always arouse sympathy, particularly if the victims are people you know...