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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trouble-and troubleshooting. In his almost 40 years of diplomatic service, Murphy has been everywhere, done everything, seen everyone. He has developed a charming exterior and a steely interior; he speaks -wherever he is-with the authority of his Government. For what Career Diplomat Murphy has meant and will mean to world politics, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Five-Star Diplomat...
...this session. Growled he: "We have been up and down this hill as many times as I care to go." But last week Mr. Sam was up the hill again, pushed there by political pressure from Southern planters, who knew that congressional failure to pass a farm bill would mean automatic cutbacks in next year's acreage allotments. The House, following Mr. Sam to the hilltop, last week passed a bill that 1) ends acreage controls on corn, provides a price-support floor of 65% of parity, subject to a farmers' referendum; 2) allows cotton farmers either...
This did not mean that Castro could now come down and engage in a stand-up fight. But he did hold the Oriente countryside, and he was strong enough to expand his guerrilla operations. This week rebels were fighting in four of Cuba's six provinces, and Castro reinforcements were scheduled for Camagiiey and Las Villas provinces. Batista still held the big, fixed positions of power-the cities, the capital, the labor movement, the army-but their strength was ebbing...
...committee was praised as "thoroughgoing" by the AEC, which maintains that bomb tests are not critically dangerous. Praise flowed also from such AEC critics as New Mexico's Senator Clinton P. Anderson, vice chairman of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, who took the same report to mean that the AEC has "no place to go, no place to hide." The U.N. committee's own summation of the significance: "The knowledge that man's actions can impair his genetic inheritance . . . clearly emphasizes the responsibilities of the present generation...
...Agnes, the convent-educated daughter of a painter, met him in a Greenwich Village joint called "The Hell Hole." As he saw her home that same evening, he said in a low, sure voice: "I want to spend every night of my life from now on with you. I mean this. Every night of my life...