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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bill, introduced at the height of fury over the Jenner sub-committee hearings in Boston, also applied to any person the attorney-general has "reasonable cause" to think is a member of the Communist party...
Born of more than a quarter century of competition, the rivalry between CBS and NBC is a Hatfield-McCoy affair, with no favors asked or given. This year it will reach its height in TV coverage of the coronation. To get ready for the shooting, each network has set up its own command post in London. NBC is so security-minded that important transatlantic messages are sent in code to keep them away from CBS signal-stealers. Boasts NBC's Assistant Producer Robert Graff: "We're going to hit them with every barrel...
...bill, introduced at the height of fury over the Jenner sub-committee hearings in Boston, also applied to any person the attorney-general has "reasonable cause" to think is a member of the Communist party...
...Soldiers." The British first began to catch on to this significant news early last month, at the height of the impasse over Suez Canal negotiations. The British were willing to evacuate the zone only after an Egyptian promise to keep British technicians and join the Western-sponsored Middle East Defense Organization. The Egyptians refused; the deadlock seemed unbreakable. Nasser called in a British correspondent and told him: "What is our policy? It is evacuation-complete independence." Egypt, he said coolly, was not interested in a Middle East Command. But, he went on: "We are soldiers and we are realists...
...Dibdin's daughter Margaret had beauty, Dibdin had money, and, perhaps best of all, Mrs. Dibdin had aristocratic blood. On his honeymoon Albert was converted, after "some excesses of which he was proud," from a great amorist to a great husband. "Woods." he told himself, "is at the height of his powers"; and rushed back to his laboratory to become a great scientist...