Word: noted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only a fraction of life at Princeton." Observers in Princeton hope that this official endorsement de-emphasizing Bicker, plus the emergence of Wilson Lodge as an attractive alternative to the club system, will promote a more successful Bicker. There are, however "too many variables" inherent in the process, they note, to predict what will happen later this week...
Gambit. In Clearwater, Fla., Wallis Cady, who has been playing chess-by-mail for 18 months with Ray Pearson of Detroit, wrote to remind Pearson that he had not made a move in seven months, soon got a note from Detroit, saying "I thought it was your move...
When his turn came, Despaigne was allowed to write a note to his son, smoke a final cigarette and-to show his scorn and nerve-to shout the order for his own execution. On a hill overlooking the range, a crowd gathered and cheered as each volley rang out. "Kill them, kill them," the spectators bellowed. As the death toll reached 52 and the pit was halfway full, one rebel muttered: "Get it over quickly. I have a pain in my soul...
Headlines v. Facts. The U.S. Secretary of State, anxious to avoid the appearance of keeping his mind closed to new avenues toward peace, had made a logical answer to an "or else'' question. What he said was not new: in the Sept. 30 note to Moscow, the U.S. had offered to discuss "any other proposals genuinely designed to insure the reunification of Germany in freedom." But what Dulles said in his news conference last week was presented in much of the press as a positive statement suggesting an important change in U.S. policy...
What emerged from the pages of U.S. newspapers was the figure of a craftily intelligent, ingenuously friendly. Soviet-type Rotarian, a capitalist at heart, who appealed to American vanity by praising American ways and American machinery. The Soviet press took careful and exultant note of the picture the U.S. press presented. "A Warm Wind from Moscow," paeaned the Moscow Literary Gazette,*quoting Mikoyan's "peace-loving utterances" and noting "the passionate desire of the Americans to be rid of the exasperating cold war." The U.S. press did not buy Salesman Mikoyan's wares, but in the name...