Word: letter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Succession. Briskly, Attorney Sims intoned the contents of five official letters, worked out only moments before in a back-room huddle with the state board of hospital supervisors. One pair of letters, signed by the Governor, the Lieutenant Governor, and the state senate president pro tern, announced the discharge of Jesse Bankston, director of state hospitals, and Dr. Charles Belcher, acting director of Southeast Louisiana Hospital, where Earl Long had been committed by his wife Blanche (who by now had fled the state). The second pair of letters announced Long's appointment of two of his oldtime cronies...
...White House early last week went a secret letter addressed to Nikita Khrushchev. In the most dramatic, though private, Western move since the foreign ministers' conference began. President Eisenhower made a last-ditch personal attempt to break the stalemate in Geneva...
Burden of Ike's letter was a solemn warning that unless the Geneva conference made some progress toward ending the seven-month-old Berlin crisis, the U.S. would not agree to an East-West summit conference. In essence, Ike told Khrushchev the same thing that he told a White House press conference two days later: "I see no use whatsoever in trying to have a harvest when there is no planting and no tilling...
...President Eisenhower the ruling was still "ridiculous." But the FCC lamely argued that the letter of the law left no other choice, said that it was up to Congress to put some common sense into the law. Hustling to do just that before the 1960 presidential campaigns begin in earnest, the Senate subcommittee took under consideration eleven bills to keep splinter candidates from snagging newscasts, heard CBS President Frank Stanton declare that it would have been impossible to give equal-time coverage to all candidates of the 18 parties in 1956. If the rule is not changed, said Stanton, "simple...
TEMPO DI ROMA, by Alexis Carvers (328 pp.; McGraw-Hill; $4.50), is evidence that nothing makes more pleasant reading than a novel that is both light and serious-unless it is a love letter written with tact. Alexis Curvers' light and serious novel is a moving love letter to the city of Rome. It consists of the memoirs of Jimmy, an exquisitely cultivated Belgian bum who gets a job as a tourist guide in the Holy City and finds a few shadowy, crackpot friends. There is Sir Craven, so named for his Craven "A" cigarettes, a fop straight...