Word: opening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...private investigators of U.S. defenses nailed a bright red danger signal to the Pentagon's highest mast this week. The signal: "The military position of the United States has declined in the short span of 15 years from one of unchallenged security to that of a nation both open and vulnerable to direct and devastating attack." The investigators, operating on a grant from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee: Paul H. Nitzer onetime chief policy planner (1950-53) for Democratic Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Military Pundit James E. King Jr., and Director Arnold Wolfers of the Johns Hopkins University...
Appearing last September before a closed session of the House committee, George Bunker, Martin's board chairman, vehemently urged an open session, just as vigorously denied that there was anything unethical about paying the expenses of the officers. "I cannot conceive." said he, "that anyone could possibly believe men of their character and responsibilities could be improperly influenced by playing golf with me on Eleuthera." Another witness testified that the Internal Revenue Service had disallowed Martin's request to list the $18,000 in expense accounts as a business expense and a tax deduction...
...throngs crumpled police lines, repeatedly halting the open car in which Eisenhower was riding with Nehru. Once the chiefs of state were surrounded for more than 15 minutes by a sea of cheering people...
Work in the seminar will be co-ordinated with the general work in the course, explained Myron P. Gilmore, professor of History. It will be open to freshmen with special interest in the field, but "will not be an honors section," according to Jameson. He expects eight to ten students to enroll...
Three times a year, the CRIMSON decides that it might be wise to acquire what other organizations call "new blood," and so out of need as much as out of kindness, opens its doors to prospective donors. The second competition of the current year--the last chance before next term--will begin with open house at 14 Plympton Street tonight and tomorrow night...