Word: hiss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...They came in one morning and said, 'We've got the goods on Alger Hiss.' This was in '45, mind you, long before anything else broke...
Bill, a lifelong Democrat, joined the Central Intelligence Agency in 1951, soon locked horns with the late Senator Joe McCarthy over a $400 contribution he had made to a defense fund for Alger Hiss. "I believed him worthy of a full defense," he says, "and the Hiss family didn't have the means." The fact that Bill was married to the daughter of McCarthy's archfoe, former Secretary of State Dean Acheson, did not exactly endear him to the Senator. Neither did the fact that McGeorge Bundy, though a Republican himself, had edited Dean Acheson's state...
Lasky, co-author with Ralph de Toledano of a 1950 book on the Alger Hiss case, Seeds of Treason, is presently employed as an analyst of world and domestic affairs for the North American Newspaper Alliance. During the 1960 Kennedy-Nixon campaign, Lasky was assigned to write a review of Arthur Schlesinger Jr.'s pro-Kennedy book, Kennedy or Nixon: Does It Make Any Difference? He became so angry at Schlesinger's partisan arguments that he expanded his review into a 300-page anti-Kennedy paperback. Still incensed, Lasky has now enlarged and updated that book...
...casting director's dream: Liston, the ex-con, scowling, surly, somnolent; Clay, the will-o'-the-wisp, gaudy, gay, garrulous, boastful, poetic. This time there would be emotion enough for everybody. People hate Liston and he hates them right back. People hiss at Clay and he laughs in their faces...
...days later, Dave Mack McGlathery, 27, a Negro employed at the U.S. space research center at Redstone Arsenal, went to the University of Alabama's Extension Center at Huntsville and registered for night classes in mathematics. Not a single hiss, boo or catcall was audible. Governor Wallace did not even bother to show...