Word: item
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...private lives of the Presidium bosses and their personal disagreements with one another. Says the Times's Welles Hangen: "Soviet censorship is becoming less severe, but it remains arbitrary and capricious." For example, when the ouster of Internal Affairs Minister Sergei Kruglov was revealed in a back-page item in Pravda, the Times bureau filed a story at 6 a.m. labeling Kruglov's successor as a Khrushchev man. It passed. That afternoon Hangen wrote a second-day story elaborating on the same theme. It was killed...
...Biggest item in the Senate last week was foreign aid, handled ineptly by the Republican Administration, defended eloquently−and perhaps decisively−by the Democratic dean of the Senate, Walter George (see below). The Senate reserved its heftiest clouts for Defense Secretary "Engine Charlie" Wilson and, despite his objections, it awarded the U.S. Air Force $960 million the President said he did not want...
...Festival Poetry Prize this year deservedly went to Archibald MacLeish, Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory. On June 17 a large crowd turned out to hear him read from his works. The featured item was a deeply felt and thoughtful poem expressly written on the occasion of the 1956 Festival...
...Pineau proposed sweeping new cultural and economic exchanges with the Iron Curtain countries, e.g., selling French electronic equipment and jet transport planes to the Communist empire; Dulles thought that exchange visits should be handled on a "selective basis," that controls on strategic trade with the Communists should be reviewed item by item...
...news was no shock to the U.S. Much of the muscle had already gone out of the embargo in 1954, when the U.S. agreed to reduce the embargo list for Soviet Russia and her European satellites to 170 strategic items (TIME, Sept. 6, 1954). Thus, though China itself was still forbidden a list of some 450 items, there was nothing to stop the Russians from buying and passing along a wide range of banned goods. The attrition increased when the U.S. tacitly agreed to the use of an "exceptions procedure" by which Western businessmen could claim that any item sold...