Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mike Mansfield becomes the Senate's Democratic whip, his soft, low-pressure approach may work against him; the job sometimes requires a wheeler-dealer with a big stick. But Mansfield has impressive support. Texas' Johnson is strongly behind him. So are many Southern conservatives (Mansfield was a special protege of Georgia's retired Senator Walter George). So are such northerners as Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, Oregon's Wayne Morse and Illinois' Paul Douglas. If he can persuade the dissident Democrats to work together, onetime Private First Class Mansfield may become a Senate commander...
...Egypt. At midweek, the counting abruptly ceased on receiving plain warning from President Eisenhower that the U.S. would oppose Russian intervention in the Middle East. Next day Premier Bulganin piously denied to France and Britain that Russia "follows in the Near East some sort of special aims directed against the interests of the Western powers." Thus, without expending a single Russian soldier, Russia got credit among many Arabs for having made peace possible in the Middle East. (Among those not fooled was Egypt's top leadership, which saw that the Russians did not intervene to prevent the Anglo-French...
BUDAPEST IS IN FERMENT TODAY. HUGE MASS DEMONSTRATION HANGS OVER CITY. TEN THOUSAND WORKERS FROM INDUSTRIAL AREAS ARE MARCHING ON PARLIAMENT. RUSSIAN AGENTS TRIED TO STOP THEM BUT HAVE BEEN BRUSHED ASIDE. THEY BLOCK ALL BRIDGES AND SPECIAL PATROLS ARE AROUND PARLIAMENT BUILDING...
...Last year, when eight students were dismissed after another riot, the rest of the student body caused so much trouble that the university closed for a month. In the state of Bihar students launched a four-day reign of terror because the State Transport Authority refused to grant them special bus fares. They hurled bricks at police, raided a bank, burned the national flag. When the police finally opened fire, five people were killed. This fall more riots started at Aligarh, resulted in 24 deaths...
...years with the foundation, Dr. Gregg refused all honorary degrees and awards lest acceptance embarrass him in dealing with donors. Last week Medical Statesman Gregg, 66 and now retired, accepted his first, well-earned award. In Atlantic City he received a special Albert Lasker Award of the American Public...