Word: reached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Marked for Success. Thus came Alger Hiss, 45. to the bitter day of reckoning. He had been found guilty of perjury. But implicit in the charge was Hiss's conviction for a far deeper crime that, because of the statute of limitations, justice could not reach. The verdict branded Hiss...
...economic engine . . . Businessmen know more about their own business than Government officials." The Administration had faith in "our American system," and in capitalism's strength and good. Sawyer-who writes his own excellent speeches-could see capitalism whistling along a clear track towards better & better times, until it reached that distant, happy horizon where (he quoted H. G. Wells) men "shall stand upon this earth as one stands upon a footstool and shall laugh and reach out their hands amid the stars...
Once they were sure that they were beyond Russian reach, the refugees at the Gesundbrunnen station began to tell their stories. "I was arrested with my husband when we were trying to escape to Western Germany," said one woman. "We were accused of espionage for the Americans. My husband was sentenced to ten years and sent to Russia. The most terrible time I had was in the NKVD cellar at Hohen-schönhausen. One woman slashed her wrists and a man hanged himself...
Invasion from the mainland is only part of the Red threat. Hiding in the Five Finger Mountains, whose timber-clad ridges reach up 7,000 feet in central...
Another freshman, Bud Adams, reach the finals of the 135-pound class before losing a referee's decision to Dick Shorp of Williams. Shorp had already eliminated Icko Iben, Harvard's third freshman entry, by a similar decision in the semifinals. Shorp's brother outpointed Dave Smith, the Crimson's only varsity entrant, 5 to 3, in the 145-pound class semifinals...