Word: linings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...foreign correspondent in France and Geneva after World War II; his influence has risen since 1957 by dint of his handling of the people-to-people exchange program; he was the top Soviet official with the Nixon party during much of the Vice President's trip. A harder-line Communist pressagent is Leonid llyichev, fiftyish, head of the agitprop organization set up to indoctrinate worldwide Communist parties, who as Soviet Foreign Office press briefing officer from 1954-58 liked to harass U.S. newsmen and lecture them: "After all, a newspaper worker is primarily a political worker...
...refused to hurl their spending bills full-sized against inevitable vetoes, thus make an irresponsible "record" for next year's campaigns. He sought instead to shrink the proposals just enough to get under the veto, but failed in this tactic when Ike refused to compromise on the budget line. Johnson was blamed by labor for swinging key Texas Congressmen to a tough version of the labor reform bill. So by half time, Johnson had picked up a serious new handicap: many a labor leader and many a Northern Democrat have vowed to see that he gets no place...
...eight came close to being exactly "right" (all have improved since). Most common deficiency: only two years of foreign language study (partly because few colleges require more). Other flaws: able girls shunned math and science; able boys concentrated on them, skipping foreign languages and neglecting English. All down the line, observed Conant. "the academically talented student is not being sufficiently challenged...
...promises to be more Spartan than the past. The Government has issued ample warnings that it no longer will doctor ailing firms with contracts just to keep their facilities in shape for an emergency. In the missile age, the fight will be won by what is on the firing line and not, as in the past, by what could come off the assembly line...
Surgeon at Arms, by Daniel Paul with John St. John. In September 1944, British Field Marshal Montgomery ordered an airborne attempt to outflank the Siegfried Line, and a British battle surgeon who tended the wounded of that unsuccessful mission writes movingly of blood, death and capture...