Word: isn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Schine, formerly an consultant to McCarthy? Stevens did not think that he had. With that, Jenkins dramatically held up an picture of Stevens and Schine. shoulder to shoulder, taken at McGuire Air Force Base, N.J. last November. Counsel Jenkins made clear why he had introduced the picture: "Mr. Stevens, isn't it an fact that you were being especially nice and considerate and tender of this boy, Schine ... in order to dissuade the Senator [McCarthy] from continuing his investigation of one of your departments?" Answered Stevens: "Positively and completely...
...from the Haig, a tiny, dim-lit supper club across from Los Angeles' plush Ambassador Hotel. Yet, with just a few numbers from his low pitched saxophone, Gerry Mulligan, a lean-faced, red-headed young man with a "new sound," proved last night that he isn't far from home...
Another Government professor, associate professor Robert G. McCloskey disagreed with Cherington as to the controversy's political value. "This isn't an issue to win a general election," he said. He agreed that McCarthy had looked bad so far, "because of their irrelevant investigations into minor side issues which later prove not the bill of goods they were advertised...
Under the M-K banner, Ferguson has shifted from a conservative fixed-fee (cost plus a set profit) operation to a more competitive unit-cost (one price for the job) contract. Says Morrison: "A business isn't worth a damn unless you get out and compete." In the first year under Morrison, Ferguson's gross climbed from $27.8 million to $73 million (net: more than $1,000,000), and its backlog jumped from $20 million to $85 million...
Chicago & Grand Opera: "As you will remember, the Egyptian priests in Plato's story told Solon: "You Greeks are only boys.'... And like America [the Greeks] were rather violent. I can imagine the Persians and Egyptians saying to one another, 'I say, isn't it shocking how many murders get committed in Greece?' . . . But the murders didn't stop things from getting done. I fancy the place I have been in that was most like Greece was a gathering of university scholars at Chicago! The city was disorderly but very much alive...