Word: presenting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are plenty of problems to be solved among the allies, and some of them must be solved before the West is ready to present Khrushchev with a solid front. But Ike's trip, and even De Gaulle's assertion of independence, made it clear that the West would be dealing at the summit from a new kind of strength, backed by a new kind of world confidence and support...
...Investigation, Lieut. Colonel Jose G. Lukban, an old Magsaysay man, wrote a letter to the Deportation Board citing Lewin as "a dangerously undesirable alien" guilty of 1) black-marketing in currency, 2) running illegal gambling, 3) harboring a Chinese wanted for murder, 4) "corrupting public officials and frustrating the present administration's efforts to eliminate graft and corruption in government." On the strength of these charges, Lukban got a warrant issued for Lewin's arrest...
...into his head and draws exactly what comes into his eyes. This "I gives his conversation and his drawings a startling immediacy. But his paintings are something else again: mysterious distillations "of long and apparently anxious thought. It took him two years to produce the 15 paintings of the present series, which will go on view next month at Manhattan's Midtown Gallery. The five reproduced on the following pages show the range and strangeness of his imaginings. ¶The Diver has as its setting a flooded rooftop on Pittsburgh's Polish Hill, with the Pennsylvania Railroad main...
This was too much for some guardians of press liberty. Said the nondenominational U.S. weekly, Christian Century: "His statement profoundly disappoints the Christian Century and all who hoped as we did that the personal kindness of the present Pope reflected an attitude of understanding benevolence toward democratic liberties, of which one of the foremost is freedom of the press...
...Instead of profiteering, Connor said, Merck cut the price from $200 to $20 a gram before it had a competitor, then licensed so many other manufacturers that last year it had but 17% of the cortisone group market. Not for seven years did Merck recover its $21.8 million investment. Present to support Connor was Dr. E. C. Kendall, formerly at the Mayo Foundation, now at Princeton, one of three researchers who won Nobel Prizes for cortisone. Said Scientist Kendall: "Cortisone could still be just a laboratory curiosity if those who directed Merck & Co. had not had the foresight and courage...