Word: ian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more direct attack on the U.S. Government was made by Ian F. McRae, board chairman of Canadian General Electric Co., Ltd. and president of the Canadian Manufacturers Association. Apparently smarting from a recent Justice Department antitrust suit against General Electric Co. involving the company's Canadian subsidiary, McRae lashed out at the U.S. for continually "interfering in one way or another with the operation of U.S.-owned companies in Canada," criticized U.S. tariff policies. Said he: "Canadian products, with few exceptions, are rigorously excluded from the rich American market by your high tariffs...
Disengagement, the ÉIan to Good. For literature, Pasternak's appearance on the world scene may mark the end of an era. For three decades far too many writers have tilted at every political windmill and ambulance-chased every passing cause. This was what Sartre called "engagement." Pasternak calls for disengagement. By that he does not mean detachment from the world, but attachment to human values. It is not the function of the writer, says Pasternak, to serve principalities and powers. Communism or capitalism. The task of men of letters, as he sees it, is to heed "the living...
...London magistrate called up two defendants in Bow Street police court one day last week. The first was Private Anthony Walter Plant, 19, of the 2nd Battalion of the Coldstream Guards. The second was Ian Douglas Harvey. Conservative Member of Parliament for Harrow East and Joint Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Foreign Office, the third top Foreign Office post. Both were charged with "committing an act of gross indecency with another male person" in St. James Park, next to the government offices in Whitehall. Additionally, they were accused of "behaving in a manner reasonably likely to offend against...
...knew just what to do. On the death certificate, on the line for "cause of death," he wrote: "Carcinoma (cancer) of bronchus due to excessive smoking." This was unheard of. The registrar harrumphed, refused to accept the certificate. That meant there had to be an inquest-before Coroner R. Ian Milne, a layman who happens to be an unreformed smoker, Cried Milne: "I would take issue with any doctor who used such a term as 'excessive' in a death certificate. [That] is to judge the habits of one's fellow men. That must be the province...
...most exciting match, Roger Tuckerman '59 defeated Oxford's ace, William Gunnery. After losing the first set, 6 to 3, the Englishman rallied to take the second, 6 to 5. Tuckerman pulled out the decisive third set, 6 to 3. Charles Devens '32 defeated Ian Stewart in straight sets, while Hadden Tomes '54 lost the only American match of the day to Englishman Dan Lawrence...