Word: pecked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harold Stassen, the G.O.P.'s own Peter Piper, has picked himself a peck of pickled political peppers while serving as a presidential assistant on disarmament. First, he plucked himself a hot one when he led the drive to dump Dick Nixon from the 1956 presidential ticket. And then, five weeks ago, he served up his opinion that Nixon was indeed a 1956 liability, and that the Republicans could have won control of Congress if Massachusetts' Christian Herter rather than Nixon had been the vice-presidential nominee. Fellow Republicans glowered, wondered how long, O Ike, before Harold is sent...
Herter was one of a panel arranged by Thomas E. Crookes '49, head of Student Placement. Russell H. Peck '43, assistant dean of the Law School, moderated the panel consisting of John Rhome, partner of Hutchins & Wheeler, Boston; Wright Tisdale, Assistant General Counsel of Ford Motor Company; and Herter, partner of Bingham, Dana & Gould...
During the meeting, a panel consisting of Christian A. Herter, Jr. '41, member of the Governor's Council and partner in Bingham, Dana, and Gould; John O. Rhome, partner, Hutchins and Wheeler; and Wright Tisdale, assistant general council, Ford Motor Company, will discuss opportunities in legal fields. Russell H. Peck '43, assistant dean of the Harvard Law School, will be moderator...
...into their old hedonist ways. Though Laos is practically roadless, well-to-do Laotians bought Mercedes cars and Italian scooters (with U.S. and French aid), built showy riverside houses, idled their days away in the pagoda gardens listening to Panpipe music and watching the graceful Thai dances. But a peck of trouble is in store for the pleasure-loving Laotians...
...newsmen who refused to answer questions put by the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee during its investigation of Communism in the press (TIME, Jan. 16) were indicted last week by a Washington grand jury for contempt of Congress. They are New York Timesmen Alden Whitman, 43, Robert Shelton, 30, Seymour Peck, 39, and ex-Daily News Reporter William A. Price, 41. All had invoked the First Amendment (freedom of the press) in either refusing to identify onetime Communist associates or refusing to answer questions about possible Communist affiliations. The Timesmen, said the Times, will keep their jobs "until there...