Word: put
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nikita Khrushchev holds in his raw hands great potential destructive force with a sensitive trigger. Realizing this threat, how can anyone afford to ignore him because of his past? Let's get down to the facts and put aside that which is not pertinent...
...Force Brigadier General Gilbert Pritchard from his job as boss of the U.S. forces in Iceland. Pritchard was relieved from duty after Thor Thors, Iceland's Ambassador to the U.S., called on the State Department to talk over the latest "incident" to rag sensitive Icelandic tempers. Ambassador Thors put it plainly: Icelanders were hopping mad because a U.S. sentry forced two of their people to lie on wet ground at the NATO Airbase in Keflavik while he called a sergeant to check their credentials (TIME, Sept. 21); Pritchard's departure would help smooth things over...
...Denounced as "immoral" the leg-kicking and skirt-tossing can-can dance put on for him when he visited a Hollywood studio...
Although few men--even in the academic community--possess sufficient courage to tag themselves as active "radicals," a suprisingly large number accept the political proposals that the Respectable Radicals put forward. While the group retains its popular identity as "liberals," its program, in many cases, is decidedly radical...
Kaufman, this time in collaboration with Moss Hart, also wrote The Man Who Came to Dinner, which the Harvard Summer Theatre Group chose to put on in the Union Common Room. Resourcefully directed by Julius L. Novick '60 under difficult conditions, this witty satire about the notorious Alexander Woollcott emerged as a highly entertaining production. Mikel Lambert '59, as Maggie, gave the most consistently fine performance--poised, polished, and sensitive. Other good work came from Earle Edgerton '56 (in the title role), Richard Dozier '60, Marguerite Tarrant '59, John Wolfson '60, and Erich Segal...