Word: senting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vermont, Political Amateur William H. Meyer, 44, became the first Democrat sent to Washington in 106 years by edging ex-Governor Harold J. Arthur for the state's lone House seat...
...period last week. Los Angeles' health officer, Dr. George Uhl. wondered and worried as his Geiger counters showed a steady rise in the atmosphere's radioactivity level. At midweek a brisk high-altitude wind, blowing from Nevada, brought radioactivity from a test shot above normal safety levels, sent Health Officer Uhl round to see Los Angeles' Mayor Norris Poulson. Poulson phoned the AEC in Washington, finally got through to AECommissioner Willard Libby, was assured that 1) the fallout level was not dangerous at all; 2) the Nevada test series was almost complete...
...Virginia's school-closing law unconstitutional, and 2) enjoin Almond & Co. from meddling with Norfolk schools. The school closings, argued the suits, violate the children's constitutional rights, do them "irreparable injury." and impose unfair financial burdens on the parents. Norfolk's Committee for Public Schools sent Almond a 6,000-signature petition asking him to get the schools reopened fast...
...spirit has long been a traitor to his country and has now spat in its face." The satellites fell tamely into line as the literary hacks of Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and Rumania echoed the denunciations by Soviet hacks. Only Antoni Slonimski, head of the cantankerous Polish Writers' Association, sent Pasternak a congratulatory telegram and, at week's end, was still unrepentant...
Time for a Raise. Ely's boss, General Charles de Gaulle, posed a problem to NATO too. Endlessly jealous of French prestige, De Gaulle more than a month ago sent off private letters to Dwight Eisenhower and Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. Their contents remain secret, but their gist was leaked out: France should be admitted to equal partnership with Britain and the U.S. in a kind of informal three-power NATO dictatorate in world affairs. "Unacceptable." cried Bonn. "Wounds the feelings and the rights of Italy." complained Premier Amintore Fanfani. The French Foreign Office blandly assured...