Word: noted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...authorization bill represented a rock-bottom figure for U.S. security. Next day he went even farther. About a dozen White House newsmen, straggled into the office of Presidential Press Secretary Jim Hagerty for the routine afternoon briefing. "Guess we won't need this," said one, indicating his note paper. Replied Hagerty: "I haven't anything to say to you today-but if you'll follow me, the President would like...
...surprised reporters followed Hagerty to the President's office for Ike's first such unscheduled news conference.* They found President Eisenhower waiting behind his desk, a drawer half open to support a stack of note cards scrawled on in heavy black grease pencil...
...Oman desert sputtered to an end last week with the destruction of the last remaining mud-walled rebel forts, and the flight into the mountains of the rebel Imam of Oman himself, his rascally brother Talib and their only remaining ally of any note, one Sheikh Suleiman bin Himyar, who styles himself "Lord of the Green Mountains." The rest of the Imam's tatterdemalion forces fled off to fend for themselves. Total casualties among the forces of the British and the Sultan of Muscat and Oman since the counteroffensive began: one dead, three wounded, seven cases of heat prostration...
...Becks, Managing Editor E. R. McCullough explained: "Frankly, we believed the Skakels on Saturday night and Monday morning, and we suppose we've got to go along with their latest story . . . If you have any thoughts on adult delinquency, I wish you'd drop me a note...
...consistent is the quality of the acting that one finds it difficult to note high spots. But two performers particularly stand out? Barbara Tettlebach and Eugene Gervasi...