Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...current Communist mythology, where Khrushchev's overthrow of Molotov & Co. is said to represent a triumph of "liberalization" over "Stalinism," more than one Eastern European satrap is sitting on a populace so restless that the last word he wants to hear is "liberalization...
...perfectly well what was coming (it had been discussed in smoking rooms and pubs for weeks), but still eager to have the official word spoken. At last, in a lengthy statement uninterrupted by a single sound, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan told them what they had all been waiting to hear: every member was to get a raise...
...Hartley Shawcross, onetime British attorney general, navigated a rumba. Mike missed no chance to brandish the pregnancy of his third wife, Cinemactress Elizabeth Taylor. Item: at the première, piqued when distinguished guests were tardy, Todd rushed his wife to a chair, crying for all to hear: "What would you do if your wife was pregnant?" Item: at the party, a drunken guest teetered against Liz. Todd seized the sot, pushed him to the edge of the lake. "My wife is pregnant," he choked. "Will you please be a gentleman?" Liz allowed she might have the baby...
...taffy, is still TV's only regular Negro headlines* "I was talking to Lena Home the other night," he said last week, "and she said, 'You know, Nat, with your show going on like it is, maybe some day I'll get one.' I hear other Negro performers are pushing their agents to get them TV shows, but the agents say, 'We've got to wait and see what Nat's show does...
...blasts U.S. foreign policy, grows unexpectedly lyrical about traveling U.S. businessmen ("these Eds and Harrys and Bills are America") and believes that individual Americans must go out in great numbers as lay missionaries to practice the American Faith. Concludes Wylie: "And hear this: Everyone who goes forth in that fashion will be welcome. For I have looked into a million brown, beseeching eyes, and in all I saw the light of liberty, here dim but there radiant. And all those eyes implored me to tell...