Word: notes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Note physiognomical resemblance of Boss Beck as shown in your cover and Napoleon in the cinema version of Orwell's Animal Farm...
...clock next morning. But at 9 a.m. Newshen Montgomery was awakened by her telephone: a cheery Edgar was on the line, wanting to know if she could hustle right over to the Statler. Edgar had plenty on his mind-so much that after 50 minutes of breathless note-taking, she had to remind him of a White House appointment, and give him a shove in the right direction...
...long run it is not an effective partner . . . Now, while we are disappointed to see in this coming year 13,500 [British] men taken out of Europe, still it does not, in our opinion, obviate the necessity for a shield ... in Western Europe. And certainly," said Ike, taking oblique note of German talk of cutting NATO commitments (see FOREIGN NEWS), "the compromise plan that was adopted and the phasing out of these people was in order to give the Germans an opportunity to fill that...
Neither Russian saber-rattling nor nervous visions of the onrush of Armageddon impressed the Western leaders who must deal with the stern realities of power. From Oslo Premier Einar Gerhardsen, unmoved by Soviet threats against his nation, fired off a note informing the Russians that Norway's defense was her own business. In Britain Macmillan assured the Labor Opposition that the Christmas Island test would be held. "Those who carry responsibility and perhaps even those who aspire to responsibility must make decisions," he said. "We must rely on the power of the nuclear deterrent, or we must throw...
...apartment overlooking Lake Michigan. "I wish I could be a lawyer, a great stage performer, a John Gielgud, an archcriminal. I would love to plot the strategy of a great bank holdup. I frequently plotted one and never carried it through." Then Miller's pleasant voice hits a note of deadly earnest. "I can think of no higher honor than of being asked by the citizens to be mayor of Chicago. I have certainly indicated an interest to a nucleus of people whom it is important to tell first before I tell the electorate...