Word: spokesmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communist newsmen and one lone Westerner, Associated Press Reporter Seymour Topping (see PRESS). Presumably the Communists hoped that by showing off U.S. servicemen in captivity they could prod the U.S. public into prodding the U.S. Government to pay a high soldiers' ransom. The ransom, openly demanded through spokesmen for the Russians: U.S. recognition-actual or implied-of Communist satellite East Germany as a diplomatic equal...
...results of post-mortem examinations. Where the Hammond-Horn study had been attacked by the tobacco industry as statistically unsound because of the investigators' bias, the Dorn-VA investigation could not be assailed on the same ground, although even before formal publication it was criticized by industry spokesmen ("It cannot possibly establish the cause or causes of any diseases"). The findings, startlingly similar to those of the American Cancer Society...
...Spokesmen in both the South and North reacted predictably. Illinois' Democratic Senator Paul Douglas declared that Judge Lemley seemed to have "yielded to the threat of mob violence. I have never understood that mob violence took precedence over the law of the U.S." Said Arkansas' Democratic Governor Orval Faubus, who was now helped mightily by Judge Lemley's ruling in a primary campaign for an unprecedented third term (TIME, June 23): "Most gratified . . . The Negro citizens in the community would do well to accept this ruling." Little Rock's School Superintendent Virgil Blossom summed...
...without parliamentary approval but would also be empowered to dissolve Parliament at will. To balance still more the power of the popularly elected National Assembly, De Gaulle would like to establish a strong Senate whose members would include representatives of France's local governments and overseas territories, plus spokesmen for such economic and social groupings as organized labor, agriculture, management and the intellectuals...
...harsh grind of shifting class gears. The "go, go, go" men of the U.S. Beat Generation are caught in a frantic physical reverie of "a fast car, a coast to reach, and a woman at the end of the road." The question ultimately juts up: Are these self-appointed spokesmen for the 20th century young moving in a quest for meaning, or a flight from...