Word: prevented
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hunsecker, columnist for the New York Globe. It is the story of sleazy press agent Sidney Falco's ruthless attempt to follow his nose, which he doesn't hesitate to use in his dealings with J.J. It is also the story of J.J.'s equally ruthless attempts to prevent the marriage of his neurotic sister Suzy with a straight arrow guitarist, Steve Dallas, who has "integrity--acute, like indigestion...
Asked Senate Foreign Relations Chairman J. William Fulbright: suppose the U.S. sent an armed convoy through, the Communists stalled it by blowing up a bridge? Answer: the U.S. would repair the bridge. Asked Fulbright: "What would we do if they used armed force at that point to prevent us from repairing the bridge?" Said the President: "That is the $64,000 question...
...Veritas Foundation itself, its zeal seems ill-considered. The informal suggestion from one of the committee members last year that a filtering committee be established to prevent any future appointments of communists, or whomever is adjudged objectionable, is of course pernicious. Appointments to the faculty are amply reviewed as it is, and a watchdog committee would quickly extend its baleful influence. The Veritas Foundation, which considers that Harvard graduates at present are taught by a predominantly "leftist" faculty, would presumably try to correct this imbalance. Any such attempt would jeopardize the freedom this University has maintained for its faculty members...
Helge Holst of the Cambridge Citizens' Advisory Committee further described the legal background and asked the committee to find a "permanent answer" to the problem, one which would prevent the bill from coming up in future years...
Impetus for any solution will evidently have to come from London, rather than from the settlers or the nationalists. The suggested establishment of a Parliamentary Commission is a valuable step, for by arriving at a decision before the scheduled revision date of 1960, it would prevent the outcome from being a political result of the forthcoming British election, as now seems to be the danger...