Word: reports
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...geography proposals were contained in a report made public yesterday after several years of study by a committee--headed by Arthur A. Mass, professor of Government--which consulted extensively with Henry C. Darby, a prominent English historical geographer who spent more than a year as visiting professor at the University...
Though in quick headline-reading terms the conclusion was disappointing to Laos and the West, the circumstantial evidence cited in the body of the U.N. report left little doubt where the blame lay in Laos. The committee examined captured North Viet Nam uniforms, rifles made in China and Czechoslovakia, hand grenades and medical supplies bearing Chinese lettering. Laotian witnesses testified that troops attacking them were identifiable as North Vietnamese not only by their green uniforms but by their language ("Mau! Mau!"-Quick! Quick!) and even by the common rice they ate (Laotians eat glutinous rice). Ten captured Pathet Lao rebels...
Though the report made it unlikely that the West would urge a full-dress Security Council debate on Laos, and the Russians jeered that the report "collapsed the Laotian charges like a card castle," the fact was that the very presence of the U.N. observers in Laos has put a considerable damper on overt Communist activity. And at week's end U.N. Secretary Dag Hammarskjold decided to fly to Laos himself to determine whether the situation warrants some kind of permanent, though informal U.N. surveillance-a measure the Laotians feel would go a long way toward keeping...
Belated Recognition. Kintner began by giving NBC's official chronology of the Twenty One affair. When Herbert Stempel made his first charges that the show was crooked in September 1957, NBC officials did not report the matter to Kintner or Board Chairman Robert W. Sarnoff, but took Producer Dan Enright's assurance that Stempel was lying. A year later, when the Stempel charges finally broke in the press, NBC still took the word of Producer Enright and his partner, Jack Barry, relying largely on their "excellent reputation"; Kintner was not asked and did not tell the committee that...
...rate of 3.6%, a rate of growth that if sustained would double U.S. production in 22 years. This increase compares with an average rise of 2.9% for the 1909-57 period. Using 1954 dollars, the C.E.D. got a result substantially different from the Council of Economic Advisers' recent report that the G.N.P. rate in the third quarter of 1959 was $481 billion. In the C.E.D.'s 1954 dollars it was only $431 billion...