Word: matter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Suspect. For 20 hours, New York and Boston police grilled Radio Officer Van Rie. He admitted-later repudiating his statement-that he had gone to Lynn's cabin at 7 p.m. She was crying. Van Rie is reported to have said jokingly: "What's the matter? Are you pregnant?" Then, "She got excited and came at me." Police said Van Rie admitted, then denied, that "I beat her unmercifully. I beat her with my left. I beat her with my right. She fell to the floor. I picked her up and shook her. I threw her into...
...Heart of the Matter. For their pains, Colonels Wilkinson and Moss were rewarded last week with orders transferring them back to the U.S. on two weeks' notice. U.S. military officials in Turkey would say only that the transfers were "for the good of the Air Force." But Colonel Moss made things a bit more explicit. Though his Air Force career was at stake, he said, he felt he had to testify in the brutality trial "to retain my self-respect...
...continual squirmish over the budget lies the key to the session. The President, committed to an essentially negative program of holding the line, was able to capture the initiative and characterize the Democratic position as one of mere unimaginative opposition--greater spending no matter what the need. The election results were not a mandate for greater spending, but rather for greater leadership. Since the President appeared to give this, even if initially only in a negative direction, much of the Democratic appeal was undercut...
...bigger things is the Blue Cross. With rising hospital costs and a corresponding need to raise premiums sicklying o'er the healthy hue of resolution, most Blue Cross plans have responded to inflation by restricting benefits rather than extending them. And this loss of "pioneering spirit" has become a matter of concern to prominent Blue Cross and voluntary hospital officials...
...council, the faculty and the Reed unit of the AAUP urged the president and trustees to reject participation in this program as long as the disclaimer was required for participation. The trustees meeting on January 31 gave authorization to the president to act as he saw fit in the matter. Consequently, President Sullivan wired the U.S. Commissioner of Education on February 2 that Reed would not participate in the program as long as the requirement of a negative affidavit was demanded...