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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past ten and more years 600 million men and women in nearly a score of lands have, with our support and assistance, attained nationhood. Many millions more are being helped surely and steadily towards self-government. Thus, the reality and effectiveness of what we have done is a proof of our sincerity. Further, we know that political independence cannot alone assure men and nations full opportunity to pursue happiness and to fulfill their highest destiny. There is likewise need for economic sustenance and growth. This, too, we have helped to provide...
...fall of the Piltdown man (TIME, Nov. 30, 1953). "Our criticisms have given us no satisfaction," wrote Price's accusers. Harry Price himself, having died in 1948, was beyond making any rebuttal, unless by further spiritual manifestation. The whole business, mourned the Glasgow Herald, "is a melancholy proof of human frailty...
...Secretary was away in the country, but an aide read a statement from him. He had not read the article, nor had he signed or even seen the letter. The letter had been written in his office as a routine thank-you note for an advance page proof of the article, and signed with Benson's name by an assistant who is authorized to handle run-of-the-mill mail. "But," said Benson, "as Secretary of Agriculture, I must take the responsibility for this, and I so do. Of course, the article as .reported to me by my staff...
Lately, however, book reviews, and even one editorial, have appeared, giving further proof of an Advocate renaissance. A symbol of this growth and energy is its new building, being built on a combination of tradition (the purses of alumni) and enterprise (undergraduate wheedling). The building may well represent the end of a period of prolonged post-war anemia. Hopefully, the Advocate's reawakened spirits will further the arts as much as conviviality
When Senator McCarthy was riding highest in 1953, a flush-faced man named Paul Hughes held out a bright promise to some of the Senator's bitterest foes. The promise: he could unhorse McCarthy with a dossier of "proof" that the Senator's investigators were resorting freely to burglary, blackmail, bribery and frame-ups to serve McCarthy's ends. Last week Hughes went on trial in a Manhattan federal courtroom on a charge of perjury, in what, a U.S. attorney called "one of the most fantastic schemes to make money in the annals of modern political intrigue...