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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...again without negotiation." In Washington, State Department Spokesman Lincoln White replied that the U.S. "has never accepted any altitude ceiling" in the air corridors. Next day the Russian "warning" was backed down to a simple statement that air collisions with Russian planes might result, added: "But that does not mean that any American aircraft would be molested or attacked." Finally Moscow got around to a diplomatic pout that the U.S. was trying to "prejudice" the forthcoming Foreign Ministers meeting...
...policy matters, and you can leave the detail stuff to other people." Last July Robertson wrote out a formal letter of resignation to President Eisenhower, was turned down again. Reason: the Quemoy crisis was brewing, and Robertson's resignation might be read by Red China to mean a softening of the U.S. position. Last week, when ailing Walter Robertson, 65, finally persuaded the President to accept his resignation effective July 1, he got a warm letter from the President, treasured most a sentence that read: "The policies which you have helped develop form a significant part of our broad...
...employer who does violence to person or property during a strike.* Unveiling the bill at a press conference, DiSalle conceded: "Everybody thinks it's too rough, even the girls in my office who typed it up. But if a union man's honest it doesn't mean a day in jail...
...very pleased and honored," Miss Bowden said last night, "but at Radcliffe such an award does not mean much at all." Since she entered the contest, she has become more "conscious of her dress," but still finds black stockings "quite nice...
...should the South fail, it will face either the liberal Democrats or the unsympathetic Republicans. Neither prospect is very comforting to Southerners. A third party movement represents a desperate maneuver on the part of the embattled South. It would be a dangerous procedure, and failure could mean the end of conservative power within the party...