Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Matter of Taste...
...Geneva Conference, said Dean Acheson, "was not merely a failure; it was a fraud and positive harm . . . Unless the situation is ripe for settlement, then, no matter how eminent the participants, how perceptive their insight, how bold and imaginative their conceptions, their efforts will fail. In the last twelve years the international conference has ceased to be an instrument for ending conflict and has become one for continuing it. For high international negotiations it is not necessary that chiefs of state or heads of government be involved...
California's G.O.P. Governor Goodwin J. Knight and California's Republican Senator William Fife Knowland are about as friendly as matter and antimatter. Knight, who wanted to run for re-election this year, was pressured out by Knowland, reluctantly announced his candidacy for Knowland's seat in the Senate. Last week the Pasadena Independent quoted Goodie Knight telling just exactly how he feels about his prospective running mate on California's Republican ticket. Said Knight...
...Open Door. Cord's political start came when he was appointed to fill a vacancy in the state senate from Esmeralda County; he explains his decision to accept as a simple matter of civic consciousness. Cord quickly began moving into the Democratic power vacuum created by the 1954 death of U.S. Senator Pat McCarran. He won labor support by pushing through a bill hiking unemployment benefits from $50 to $75 a week. He found favor with Nevada's powerful gambling interests by leading the fight for a bill giving them new tax benefits (the bill was vetoed...
Playboy Magazine, which has long been the favorite reading matter of Yale students, was removed Wednesday from New Haven news stand...