Word: poste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pentagon, the State Department, the White House, top U.S. policymakers are earnestly debating a new book, a brilliant, independent analysis of the nation's post war diplomatic and military struggle with Communism. Title : Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy (Harper; $5). Author: Political Scientist Henry A. Kissinger, 34, associate director of Harvard's new Center for International Affairs, a policy consultant to the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, wartime Army intelligence special ist. Heart of Kissinger's analysis: Americans must drastically revise their hopes for Communist redemption, e.g., through disarmament, their fears of all-out war, and their...
LAWRENCE EUGENE LAYBOURNE, 44, chief of correspondents of the U.S. and Canadian News Service for the past eight years, will take the new post of managing director of TIME International Ltd. of Canada. Larry Laybourne was an experienced reporter on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch before he came to TIME in 1944 as Ottawa correspondent. In that post he was one of the most widely traveled newsmen in Canada, covering every province from the Maritimes to British Columbia. He moved to Washington as deputy bureau chief in 1946, was LIFE'S News Bureau chief in New York...
...trials in contempt cases. The New York Times, which had scored the jury trial amendment a few days before, urged the Senate to pass the weak bill as the best possible. So did ardently pro-Ike New York Herald Tribune Columnist Roscoe Drummond. So did the civil-righteous Washington Post and Times Herald: famed Post Cartoonist Herbert Block (Herblock), who is forever lampooning Eisenhower for indecisiveness, did an astonishing turnabout to sketch an impulsive Ike pointing a revolver at a fair Miss Civil Rights...
Innocent Middleman. In Copenhagen, Ole Jensen, arrested for counterfeiting Danish employee holiday stamps-so expertly that he was able to turn them in at post office windows, a book at a time, and collect $64 in refunds-conceded that he knew it was illegal but did not think it really wrong since the post office could reissue the books and recover its money...
...Thomas cantor, persistently complained about his teaching chores, fought a running battle with the school administration, nevertheless managed to compose enough church cantatas for one to be sung every Sunday for five years without repeating. Few St. Thomas cantors have ever made a serious stab at composing since. The post still carries great prestige (and pays handsomely: $25,000 a year...