Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eisenhower said that "those parts of Secretary Talbott's official duties with which I have come in contact have been almost brilliantly performed." He pointed out that Talbott had not been charged with an illegal act. But he also said: "I do not believe that any man can hold, properly hold, public office merely because he is not guilty of any illegal act ... So what is now involved is, was a proper standard of ethics violated...
...free nations hold fast to their essential purposes, which are entirely peaceful and protective, they now have real hope of seeing the Russians translate their smiles into something more solid. Only if the democracies give way now is that hope likely to be dashed...
...Hawker Hunters, made in Britain with the help of $140 million in U.S. defense aid. The 700-m.p.h. Hunter, first flown three years ago, has been haunted by development troubles but now that it is going into squadron service, the British feel they have a modern fighter that can hold its own with the latest Soviet MIGs. The Sabres, which are fast becoming obsolete in U.S. terms, will be turned over to other NATO allies...
...shape. For two weeks the Dodgers fretted while he recovered from a loose bone spur in his knee; now he functions with his old, Buddha's efficiency. Last week he was back behind the plate to help a couple of rookie pitchers, Don Bessent and Roger Craig, hold off the opposition and give the Dodgers' sore-armed veterans a rest. At bat, he is once more teaming up with Centerfielder Duke Snider to make one of the toughest one-two hitting combinations since Ruth and Gehrig. Campy settles into the batter's box with sure confidence-legs...
...Election Night (donated by Joseph H. Hirshhorn), which bitter, Boston-bred Expressionist Jack Levine finished only last winter. An elaborate satire, coruscating with brilliant bits of still life, filled with unhappy specimens of real life and veiled in silvery, glancing lights, Levine's picture was designed to hold both the eye and the mind. As of the moment, almost no one places Levine among the "masters" of modern art. But at 40, Levine is not afraid to paint pictures that demand mastery; he has brilliance, seriousness and a sense of his own time which may have an even greater...