Word: lessing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...approve Ike's sending a boy to trade boasts and boos with expert bogeyman Khrushchev. A less mouthy ball carrier would have been better...
...Pundit Joseph Alsop wrote last week that between the time Rockefeller began thinking about running against Democrat Averell Harriman for Governor of New York and Election Day last year, he paid for no less than 134 polls of various sorts. At the time he actually made the decision to run, Alsop said, the polls were running 60-40 against...
...Gaulle came to power 15 months ago, to almost universal cheers inside and outside France, had he found himself so isolated. France had either antagonized or felt itself wronged by all its neighbors and allies. U.S. jets have had to abandon their French NATO bases for new, and tactically less valuable, fields in West Germany because of French harassments, born of France's stubborn insistence on atomic equality and a bigger say in affairs of the Western alliance. Britain, angry about French pretensions as well as resentful of the growing friendship between Germany and France that might reduce British...
...lowest-paid public university president ($15,000 a year). But the propaganda cut deep; Mather resigned largely to "stop this personal monkey business" (he will stay through next June). To Educator Mather, it seems unlikely that culture-conscious Massachusetts will lose one of its oddest distinctions-spending less (2.32%) of the tax dollar for higher education than any other state in the Union...
Anatomy of a Murder. Producer-Director Otto Preminger's effective courtroom melodrama that seems less concerned with murder than with anatomy. James Stewart is the lawyer and Lee Remick the defendant's inviting wife in a court whose memorable presiding judge is famed Boston Lawyer Joseph N. Welch...