Word: j
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...JAMES J. ADAMS Killarney, Ireland
...enthusiastic receptions the people of Russia, Siberia and Poland gave Nixon proves how they, like us, prefer Nixon and Americanism over Khrushchev and Communism. J. KESNER KAHN Chicago
When William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick wrote last year's bestselling novel, The Ugly American (Norton; $3.95), they meant the title for the hero: a hard-palmed U.S. engineer working in Southeast Asia, who stood in sharp contrast to bumbling American officials abroad. A thesis writer might well peer into how the nation has curiously misused the title ever since. It has come to mean the very bumblers whom the authors denounced. The "Ugly American" is now a villain...
Overtime. In Buffalo, fined $5 for illegal parking, Attorney Charles J. Grieb won a dismissal six months later when he submitted a 15-page brief complete with photographs, sketches and electronic tests proving that the meter was wrong-all at a cost...
Most of the travel agents get as much of a kick out of their work as the tourists do from their travels. Says President J. Stuart Rotchford of Chicago's big Happiness Tours: "With the same effort in another business, I could make twice the money. But I would not have half...