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...When someone like McCarthy talks about "such atom spies as Fuchs, Pontecorvo, and Oppenheimer," we not only classify McCarthy as a liar or boob for so libeling Oppenheimer, but tend to forge that the other two really were atom spies. Similarly, the grouping of "such Mississippi stalwarts as Bibo, Rankin, and Fielding Wright" makes the average Southerner think that not only is all Northern criticism without basis in fact, but that Bilbo and Rankin were not so bad after...
After pleasant greetings all around, Radford and Robertson went into conference with U.S. Ambassador Karl Rankin. The visitors lunched at the home of Major General William Chase, chief of the U.S. military assistance group on Formosa, then moved into their quarters in the luxurious guesthouse at Shihlin, only two minutes through the trees from the Chiang house. At Madame Chiang's invitation, they stayed there instead of at the usual lodgings for military and diplomatic visitors...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). La Gioconda, with Milanov, Rankin, Baum, Warren...
...reservoir system built by the FOA at a cost of $500,000 in the days when U.S. Intelligence officers were using an island-wide loudspeaker system to assure the islanders that the Tachens were "the bastion of Formosa" and "the steppingstones to the mainland." Said U.S. Ambassador Karl Rankin, who waded ashore in a pin-striped suit: "A tragic moment. This is only one chapter, not the end of the book...
Full clearance came from the Tydings senate Committee in 1950. Perhaps more significant, fellow scientists showed their faith in Shapley by electing him President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science a month after his wrangle with Congressman Rankin...