Word: posts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...increase in the number of state legislators in such Republican strongholds as South Dakota, Kansas, Iowa, Oregon and California. The waning influence of its old-line, patronage-powered machines in the big cities, notably Chicago and New York, was offset by the work of aggressive "new look" (i.e., post-Truman) volunteers in California, Michigan, Oregon, Washington and Pennsylvania...
Rough Path. The week's accomplishments spread new polish on a State Department career that so far has not been easy. An engineer like his father, and a Middle East oil expert as well, Hoover was swept into his post after a piece of spectacular diplomacy in 1954. Iran and England were at angry odds over revenues from the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co.'s nationalized oilfields. Dulles chose Hoover to find common ground, asked him to find it in 45 days. The 45 days stretched to eleven months; Hoover winged constantly between Washington, London and Teheran, eventually hammered...
Last week, his military ordeal apparently ended, the new, post-invasion Nasser began to emerge. Haranguing a crowd of 20,000 at Cairo's ancient El Azhar Mosque, he sounded at times quite his old cocky self. Egypt, he said, finished the conflict "feeling stronger than we did when we started . . . Two great powers are with us: Russia, which threatened Britain and France, and America, which opposed their aggression...
...unquestionably disappointed at the decision. He regrets going, saying wistfully, "you don't leave a university and friends after a long time, quite as easily as it seems," and it's more than likely that he may be around Cambridge on his periodic leaves from the Australian post...
...present time, one man has embarked upon a course of post-graduate study, and Dean Greep hopes to see this figure rise gradually over the next few years to about ten. These men will work with a professor who is engaged in some area of research fundamental to dentistry, will work in the School's teaching program, and will handle advanced clinical cases within general dentistry of a specialized field thereof...