Word: persons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...security problem was far from over. Senator Joe McCarthy was monopolizing the headlines, making it appear that he was the only person who cared about ridding the Government of Communists. Other Cabinet members urged President Eisenhower to meet McCarthy headon, but Brownell thought otherwise. "Let time elapse," said he. Apply the law, Brownell counseled, by refusing to let McCarthy take over the files of the executive branch, but stay out of emotional brawls. First and last, Brownell thought that McCarthy by his excesses would bring about his own ruin...
Speedy Stories. Another large-sized little person (5 ft. 7 in., 160 lbs.), silver-haired Jim Bishop, 49, talks in terse, side-of-the-mouth sentences that often sound as if he read Hemingway before writing, also brings to his craft an Irish eye for sentiment and a memory for "all the important little tiles of fact on every story of consequence." He is a tenacious reporter, with a disarming manner and a glib way of dramatizing. Bishop on Bishop: "I'm a reporter. A pretty good one. A pro. If my work is memorable, it's because...
...maximum permissible concentration" and there is general agreement that it would take "larger concentrations, perhaps tenfold greater," to produce harmful results. Libby provided a striking example: the present dosage of strontium 90 in the bones of children is no more dangerous than the radioactive dosage a person would receive from cosmic rays if he moved "from a beach to the top of a hill a few hundred feet high...
...countries around the world groups affiliated with 1,900 Protestant churches kept up 24-hour chains of prayer for the big campaign. But from a Roman Catholic churchman came the warning: Catholics in heavily Catholic New York (2,136,000) should not listen to Billy Graham in person or on the air and should not read what...
...mixture of helplessness and guiltlessness, are the most poignant. Around a camp of brutalized children and their would-be healers in a thinly disguised German locale, British Author Peter Vansittart has fashioned a melancholy novel that is sometimes static but frequently moving. Two brothers, Eric and the nameless first-person narrator of the story, have turned their war-ravaged country estate, Kasalten, into a rehabilitation center. The youngsters, turned savage by war and its aftermath, very nearly rule the place with their catapults, clubs, knives and even pistols. They move in organized gangs-Wolves, Eagles, Foxes, Bears-and even boast...