Word: porter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...International Court of Justice, the Senate-House group called on the President to study strengthening and revising the U.N. Charter "to promote a just and lasting peace through the development of enforceable world law." Leader of the Senate group: Pennsylvania Democrat Joe Clark; House spokesman: Oregon Democrat Charles O. Porter...
...Christian Herter, bound from Washington for a quick weekend's rest in Green Pond, S.C. Also aboard the train, also bound for Green Pond was TIME Washington Correspondent Harold B. Meyers. Soon after the train pulled out of Washington's Union Station, Meyers handed a porter a note for the Herters, a few moments later was welcomed into their room for an informal interview ("I had known you were aboard," said Herter later, "and I must confess I was quite put out about it"). While Meyers was having his chat with the soon-to-be-appointed Secretary...
...contract to supply ferryboats for a transport system across the Mekong River, between Thailand and Laos. Kirby later quit ICA and took a job with the company. Until Congress took notice, ICA headquarters in Washington seemed almost indifferent to the shenanigans in Laos, and slow to investigate thoroughly. Representative Porter Hardy Jr. of Virginia, chairman of the subcommittee, last week indignantly suggested abolition of ICA altogether, and a fresh start for foreign aid under State Department control...
...Castro among his old supporters of the middle and upper classes is becoming obvious. Last week, when his picture appeared in a newsreel in Havana's well-to-do Miramar suburb, not a person applauded. In Washington, Castro's staunchest congressional friend, Oregon's Charles O. Porter, said: "I do not think Castro is a dictator yet, but I do see an ominous trend...
...decent book." In the meantime, Jerry and Mike go on helping the kids to identify. "Who's always writin' on the wall?/ Who's always goofin' in the hall?/ Who's always throwin' spitball?" Why, Charlie Brown, of course. Says Leiber: "If Cole Porter were starting out today, he'd have a tough time...