Word: known
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Prodded by Missouri's Stuart Symington, onetime Air Force Secretary, on whether he thought the 1959 military budget was big enough, Air Force General Twining growled an answer that Symington should have known. Once the budget is firmly set by the executive department of the Government, said West Pointer Twining, the committee "should not bring [military men] back again and say, 'Is this still adequate?' . . . In the military terminology, a commander makes a decision, and if everybody starts bucking it, it is just no good, you have no military...
Washington's flap is eternal, and no sooner had Ike made his availability known than a storm brewed about Richard Nixon as his running mate. Harold Stassen, who was supposed to advise the President on international disarmament, urged dumping Nixon in favor of Massachusetts' Governor Christian Herter. Hagerty, who liked Nixon and thought he was the strongest candidate for Vice President, consulted the President, issued a statement pointedly reading Stassen out of the official Eisenhower family in his fight against Nixon. Later, when Nixon announced that he wanted a second term, Hagerty again went to Ike, came...
...service to Caesar's Rome but always bought up threatened nearby properties dirt-cheap before dousing the flames), he picked up many a real-estate bargain from cash-short owners in the course of cutting through the Duce's grandiose streets and squares. By 1937 Vaselli was known as the "garbage baron" and "asphalt king." And when typhus broke out again in Rome, Mussolini blamed him. After a vast check, Vaselli took Mussolini early one morning to a Roman creamery. There the Duce saw that the milkmaids, bent on beautifying their skins, were taking baths in the milk...
...succeeded in escaping. But Hungary's Jews had gone docilely to their deaths, innocently sure they were merely being sent to labor camps. Gruenwald pored through old records, questioned other survivors, four years ago published his findings in a pamphlet. His accusing finger pointed at a well-known official in the Israeli government-Dr. Israel Kastner. Gruenwald charged that Kastner, former head of the Jewish Rescue Committee in Budapest, had made a traitorous bargain with the Nazis, allowed half a million Jews to die unwarned so that he might escape with 600 (including 19 of his own family...
...reason for Szpilki's durability is that many of its best-known staffers, including Cartoon Editor (and Co-Founder) Eryk Lipinski, 49, have long been Communists or fellow travelers and know intuitively how deep they can sink their shafts. In a country that has long suffered satirists more willingly than reporters, Polish newsmen believe that Szpilki is so popular (circ. 165,000) that it is virtually assassination-proof...