Word: poste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Booked Up. King's post-boycott day begins when he arises at 6 a.m., dresses quickly in a grey suit ("I don't want to look like an undertaker, but I do believe in conservative dress"), takes an hour for reading, prayer and breakfast before going to the M.I.A. office, a small brick building on South Union Street. There two secretaries are already at work, pounding on their typewriters (the association receives and answers upwards of 100 letters a day), or cranking a Mimeograph machine to turn out official notices to the Negro population. King's desk...
...Long Embarrassment. For the U.S., torn between its friendship for France and its post-Suez vocation of winning Arab-Asian friendship, the debate was one long embarrassment. But when the chips were down the U.S. lined up foursquare behind France. The U.S. delegation, announced Henry Cabot Lodge, would oppose not only the 18-power resolution but all other proposals "which we believe constitute intervention in matters essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of France...
...Without Post-Mortem. Then the curtain descended. Shortly after Wallenberg was picked up by the NKVD, a Russian official in Stockholm declared: "Wallen berg is not really a prisoner. He committed some follies after liberation; therefore he had to be taken care of. He will return soon safe and sound...
...felt, Dulles had invited pressure from Americans who, though uninterested in the spat between Dulles and the press, think that a lifting of the ban is a cheap enough way of rescuing ten U.S. citizens from Red imprisonment. Put that way, the trade sounded fine to the New York Post, most vocal of Dulles' critics: "In one single diplomatic coup we would liberate the Americans . . . and open the way for free press coverage of a decisive world area...
...Liverpool van-man's son this week ascended to the highest post in Britain's Roman Catholic hierarchy. Dr. William Godfrey, 67, was enthroned as Archbishop of Westminster, thus is just about certain to become a cardinal at the next consistory...