Word: leak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Find a Leak. Going beyond the transcript, newsmen kept on the alert to score beats from "leaks." The first big leak came, inadvertently, from General MacArthur himself. As he walked into the room, the general was overheard telling Senators that the White House had assured him that "there would be no stenographers present" at his Wake Island conference with Harry Truman...
President Truman had canceled a scheduled speech so as not to "detract7' from Douglas MacArthur's day. Publicly, the White House made a great show of leaving MacArthur unanswered. But privately, through the device of a leak to the New York Times, Harry Truman struck back. It seemed to be the opening of a battle in which each side would lean on documents marked "Secret" to make its case before...
Word of the "leak" reached the Yale Daily News, which published the story early this week, suggesting editorially that a re-examination was warranted. The exposure caused Deans to deplore the cheating, a problem which they regard as particularly severe at Yale, while several students charged that the obscure nature of the exam was responsible for the cheating...
...four-car collision, a gas leak at Radcliffe, and a hot-dog holdup punctuated the weekend in Cambridge...
...Leaking gas fumes from a Radcliffe building at 6 Appian way sent the fire department scurrying to the Annex yesterday. There was no are, however, and the Cambridge Gas and Electric Company soon shut off the leak...