Word: sellout
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...Phase. Perched as they are beside the Iron Curtain, the West Germans are more sensitive to the subtle shifts in East-West relations than any other people in Europe. The least concession to Russia brings suspicions of a sellout. Hence West Germany's anguish last week at the transatlantic reports that the U.S. might trim down some of the six combat divisions on the Continent. SENSATIONAL U.S. PLAN WITH DRAWAL OF COMBAT TROOPS, shrieked Frankfurt's Abendpost. Asked Hamburg's Bild-Zeitung: THIS QUESTION CONCERNS US ALL: HOW MANY AMERICANS REMAIN IN GERMANY...
...feelings" and "exert every effort" toward reporting a compromise version of the bill from his committee within two weeks. Inevitably, there were some angry outbursts. Clarence Mitchell, Washington director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, cried that "there is no reason for this kind of sellout." The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, an association of top civil rights leaders, sent a three-page letter to Celler urging him to ignore Bobby's advice. For all that, a civil rights bill now seemed to have a better chance of getting through the House...
...Communist Viet Minh at Dienbienphu two months earlier. Even before that, diplomats from nine nations, halfway round the world in Geneva, had been working feverishly to hammer out the final peace settlement. Fearful that high-level participation in Geneva might put the U.S. in the position of approving a sellout to the Reds, President Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles were hesitant about endorsing the conference. But when French Premier Pierre Mendès-France said that he needed U.S. support to avoid unnecessary concessions, Washington sent Under Secretary of State Walter Bedell Smith to Geneva to stiffen...
...first New York Film Festival, now at Lincoln Center's Philharmonic Hall, must confess its infancy compared to Cannes and to Venice, which had its first film festival in 1932. But by its taste and high excitement, by the quality of its films and the intelligence of its sellout crowds, it may well mark for Americans a redefinition of what movies are and who it is that sees them. For in the decade since Hollywood came unstuck and television became the reigning medium of mass entertainment, the movies have suddenly and powerfully emerged as a new and brilliant international...
...baroque himself, the hero of the baroqueniks is Festival Conductor Thomas Dunn, 37, who divides his time between his regular duties as organist at Manhattan's Episcopal Church of the Incarnation and such special music projects as this summer's festival and last fall's three sellout per formances of all of Bach's Brandenburg concertos. Says Dunn of the baroque: "The music of that period speaks to our time...