Word: lesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...repose the old question: What is truth? Fine. That is what good journalism is all about-the pursuit of truth. But a less elusive and more pertinent question might be: What is news? For some reporters, news can be simply what the government spokesman proclaims it to be in a given country, on a given question, or what the official press release says it is. For many this is not enough...
...place for sad sacks or boneheads. Only two of Battery A's 129 men had less than eighth-grade education; 91 had finished high school and nine college; and most had volunteered for missilery to get technical schooling...
Unhidden Persuaders. With such gossipy asides, Mahdawi had little time to waste on hearing the defense. The court-appointed defense counsel, a woman named Rasima Zainab, spoke less than 15 minutes for all of her 17 clients. She hailed Colonel Mahdawi as "a symbol of justice." Before the verdict was announced, Mahdawi favored the audience with a history of May Day, said that labor movements paltered along in places like Britain until "the emergence of the Communist Party and the great Soviet Union, sincere friend of our democratic republic." When the applause died down, Defense Counsel Zainab popped...
Have Castro's travels taught him the peril of Red support? Nothing in last week's events proved that he doubts the merits of a popular front, though he did seem to want Communist infiltration to appear less blatant. Under wraps, the Red drive for power went on. Items...
...means-will apply to the girls too. They will rise at 6:05, make their beds, sweep dormitories and classrooms, wash dishes and mow lawns. The one concession to femininity so far: for arriving at breakfast after 6:45 a.m., the girls may get less strenuous punishment than the boys' fast "jog around the triangle...