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...letter did not mention Senator McCarthy's name but it was obviously an attack on his methods and philosophy and those of the State Department's Security Administrator, Scott McCleod. It was signed by Norman Armour, onetime Ambassador to Spain; Joseph C. Grew, pre-World War II Ambassador to Japan; William Phillips, ex-Ambassador to Italy; Robert Woods Bliss, former Ambassador to Argentina; and G. Rowland Shaw, former Assistant Secretary of State. (Eld er Statesmen Grew and Armour were recently asked by Secretary of State Dulles to make recommendations for the improvement of the Foreign Service.) "Recently...
While the conservatives dissipated their strength in quibblings, the Communists threw their 100-vote bloc solidly to Le Troquer. Crowed the Reds in a special victory communique: "By their vote the Communists intend to show their will to fight with the Socialist workers to pre vent ratification of the Bonn agreements and the Treaty of Paris [EDC]." Next day Socialist Le Troquer, a good anti-Communist who is regarded as "more for than against" the EDC, tried to shake off this unilateral attempt to recreate a Popular Front. Said he in his acceptance speech, as the Reds sat silent...
...tragedy. Social pressures bedevil the pair; so do officers' wives, Army regulations and Lloyd's father ("Y'can't send half-Jap boys to the Point"). Finally, Hana-ogi is sent to another dancing post and Lloyd is railroaded back to the U.S. and his pre-fling fiancée, a general's daughter. He is a sadder and presumably a wiser...
...newsprint to satisfy the world demand. In 1952, said the association, supply was only 47,000 tons less than demand, while in 1953, with an increased output of 285,000 tons, supply equaled demand. Total world newsprint production for 1953: 10,877,000 tons. v. 8,144,000-ton pre-war average...
When Lucas' father stopped sending money during his college pre-med course, the boy borrowed; and when he failed to borrow enough, he married for money-not much money, and not, by his standards, much of a woman. Kristina was a well-built Swedish girl from Minnesota who had read nothing, talked and dressed like an immigrant, and called him "Lu-key." But she was the head operating-room nurse at the university hospital, and she loved Luke in spite of all his inhuman fanaticism for his career. She put him through medical school. For Luke...