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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...oldest man ever to serve in the U.S. Congress, Rhode Island's Democratic Senator Theodore Francis Green had known for months that the chairmanship of the prestigious Foreign Relations Committee was too much for him. Last December Green underwent surgery for cataracts; his eyesight has not really returned. Last fortnight he returned from a Foreign Relations Committee hearing, complained that he had been unable to hear the testimony; his staff discovered that he simply had not had his hearing aid turned up far enough. Last week Green's home-town Providence Journal sorrowfully made an editorial suggestion...
This land is privately owned, and used to be a part of Cambridge, until, in 1903, the Metropolitan District Commission was authorized to dam up the mouth of the Charles and flood the area now known as the Basin...
...issue probably confuses the United States citizen more than that of this country's defenses. In particular our position vis a vis the Russians in missiles, although hopefully known to the Administration, still remains shrouded in conflicting data, misinformation and a morass of secrecy...
Quintero is best known for his direction of Long Day's Journey into Night, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Eugene O'Neill drama, which was seen in Boston in the fall of 1956 before going on to New York...
...Four known supporters of HYRC presidential candidate Dennis L. White '60 were elected to the five-man Elections Committee last night in a club meeting dominated by the "insurgent" White supporters. White called the outcome of the noisy, tense meeting "a convincing show of strength...