Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gordon Gray, 45, chairman of the board, is president of the University of North Carolina. Born to wealth (his father was president of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.), Gray took to heart a remark made to him by his cousin Polly: "Now remember, Gordon, you never earned a cent of the money you are about to enjoy." Gordon thereupon set out to make a record that money couldn't buy, led his class at Virginia's swank Woodberry Forest School (the Groton of the South), was president of Phi Beta Kappa at the University of North Carolina...
...Last Word. Earlier in the week President Eisenhower, as the only living ex-president of Columbia University, showed up at the bicentennial banquet in New York and spoke in denunciation of "demagogues thirsty for personal power and public notice"-a remark which was instantly interpreted as a reference to Senator Joe McCarthy...
Biggest laugh of the week came when Symington's telephoned remark to Stevens was read: "Incidentally, I would appreciate this being private between you and me." More serious was the information that Stevens, three days before he brought charges against McCarthy, had not read the Schine material and, from what he had heard, thought little...
...Stevens refused him admission to the radar laboratory. He was asked if he had said: "This is it. This is war with the Army. We will investigate the heck out of you." Cohn could not recall saying that. He said: "I come pretty close to denying [having made the remark, but] I don't have the remotest idea of all I said...
...What other policy [than ours] do you propose? Some people seem to rely more upon our enemies than our friends, and it has become fashionable in certain quarters to complain more about the U.S., which is helping us, than about the Viet Minh, who are killing our soldiers." This remark drew a heated, mendacious retort from the Communist benches:"We are as good patriots...