Word: peans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dulles, architect of the strong Far East policy that has kept Red China locked up inside its borders since 1955, it was a week of unrelenting and bitter pressures. On Monday, he conferred with President Eisenhower on Quemoy, found the President occupied and deeply disturbed by U.S. and Euro pean press criticism (see JUDGMENTS & PROPHECIES). On Tuesday, only minutes before his press conference, Dulles sent down for a handful of State Department mail to be picked out at random, read many letters from the U.S. public that said something like "Don't let's have a war just...
Attitudes: Supporter of the Atlantic Alliance and European unity, maintains that if the U.S. had had troops in Europe in 1939 as it has now, there would have been no World War II. In 1954, elected president of Euro pean Assembly in Strasbourg. Sound but not brilliant speaker, consistent but not spectacular political leader...
...order was a surprise to Monaco's press bureau, headed by Actor Jean Gastaud-Mercury and assisted by Charles A. Smith, on special leave as I.N.S. Euro pean general manager. Though Smith organized photographic pool coverage of the 1956 Olympics and D-day in Normandy, and sat on the committee that made press arrangements for Queen Elizabeth's coronation, the new project promised to be his toughest. Smith urgently wired the Prince to try to persuade him to let at least a few newsmen in for the ceremonies on a pool basis...
...token 19-man truck team will represent the Crimson at the 79th annual IC4-A championships today and tomorrow in New York. Pean State and Manhattan are co-favorites to win the meet title. Coach Bill McCurdy has little hope that his team, in its last meet, will get more than a few points, competing against the best truck teams in the East. Forty-seven colleges are entered in the meet...
...peppery disciplinarian with a splendid combat record (five times cited in dis patches, twice wounded, three times deco rated in the field), he is the only French man to hold one of the four top Euro pean commands in NATO. Tough and wiry, a born soldier and a patriot, he has a flair for fast horses, smart uniforms, brandy, and resounding candor. It was his candor and his refusal to curb it that proved Marshal Juin's undoing...