Word: mikes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...committee substitute Richards' amendment for Knowland's. Voting with Fulbright for the motion were Republicans Smith, Alexander Wiley and George Aiken, Democrats Walter George, Theodore Green, John Sparkman and Guy Gillette. On record against it went Republicans Knowland, Homer Ferguson, Bourke Hickenlooper and William Langer and Democrat Mike Mansfield. Dulles had won his point, over the opposition of his own party's Senate leaders...
...stand near a microphone boom in order to be heard, was able to move at will in a TV studio by means of a tiny concealed microphone, transmitter and antenna. The antenna went around her waist as a belt, the transmitter was attached invisibly to her back, and the mike was hidden in her bodice. Total weight of the equipment...
What happened? Publishers had flooded their market. Distributors who knew nothing about books shipped out titles indiscriminately, then engaged in dog-eat-dog fights for display space on the racks of embattled retailers who seldom know Homer from Mike Hammer. But the retailers did know when they had enough...
...Mike Gorman, editor of the Flint Journal, snapped that Harriman had smeared Flint and the civic leaders who directed the local fund drive. Gorman attributed to Harriman a motive that might broaden the controversy. Said he: "Despicably, Mr. Harriman has used this disaster...
...offered to take over the Vietnamese-army training last fall. French Commanding General Navarre denounced such interference. Navarre's successor, General Ely, is now quite agreeable to a U.S. training program under his own overall command. The U.S. plan, worked out by Major General John ("Iron Mike") O'Daniel, head of the U.S. Military Advisory Group...