Word: readings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Saturday morning papers, Vice President Nixon read with anger wire-service and New York Times reports that the State Department's mail was running 80% against the Administration's stand on Quemoy and Matsu. Checking with top officers at State, Nixon became convinced that the stories were based on a calculated leak. Nixon quickly spoke...
...needed Western Hemisphere neighbor nations it hardly knew. Rockefeller put the blame on the State Department for not following up U.S. business entries into Latin America with higher-type diplomacy, said as much in a report he forwarded to White House Chamberlain Harry Hopkins. Hopkins read the report, showed it to Franklin Roosevelt. Roosevelt asked the 32-year-old Rockefeller to visit him. Upshot of the call: Rockefeller's appointment as coordinator of Inter-American Affairs and the beginning of an intermittent 15-year government career...
...stop-and-go, five-hour battle that extended along a 400-mile arc along the coast (and 50 miles inland), the Sabres danced a jig around the MIGs. When the Nationalist pilots rolled back to Taipei to be saluted with firecrackers and garlanded with flowers, the scorecard read: ten MIGs downed, at least three others crippled. Nationalist losses: none...
...always entertaining to read about one's own school in an outside publication, especially when the article is featured under such a grandiose title as "Imperial Harvard." In the first of three Harper's articles on different U.S. schools, David Boroff has attempted to communicate what is Harvard by analyzing varied facets of University life. And although some might quibble on points where the article invades their own private worlds, the emerging synthesis is pleasing though vague...
...classical side which is not my side but which of course may bring something to some people, and the other about the St. Croix River. The St. Croix River must be a newsy place, for Richard Sommer has noticed a lot going on there and it is fun to read about it all. Thomas Whitebread writes amusingly of how bourbon may be put to good, if pragmatic, use in "The Use of Bourbon," which is all very well for them that can afford it and apparently he can't because it's clear poem. His other contribution, "Skeeter," seems...