Word: spotlights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Elegantly outfitted and wearing a vacant smile, Influence Peddler Henry Grunewald stepped back into the spotlight on Capitol Hill last week. It had been 16 months since the mysterious Grunewald first appeared before the House subcommittee investigating the Bureau of Internal Revenue. At that time, he went clam-quiet after revealing no more than his name and age. Last week, having pleaded guilty to contempt of Congress, Grunewald was trying to talk his way into a light sentence. But he was still part clam, opening his shell only when it suited his convenience, clamming up again on questions he deemed...
Operation Stopped. Disturbed by Van Fleet's revelations last month, the Senate Armed Services Committee formed a special five-member subcommittee, headed by Maine's able Margaret Chase Smith, to spotlight "the officials and conditions responsible for the shortages." At the subcommittee's first hearing last week, Van Fleet told the Senators that in June' 1951 he "recommended to General Ridgway, who was then the Far East commander, that we follow [our May counteroffensive] with an amphibious landing on the east coast, and had such an operation well prepared for execution. And that operation was stopped...
...these allegations is an infringement on no one's rights. Did it never occur to our educators that these suspicions would be quickly dispelled if they would cooperate freely with the investigators and even invite them to their campuses? People with nothing to hide do not fear the spotlight . . . The supposed threat to academic freedom is a bogeyman . . . I am a college man, but I believe these investigations should be pressed vigorously...
...glittering, imposing or sinister figures who descend on Manhattan when the United Nations General Assembly convenes, the Soviet Union's Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky usually attracts the most attention. But on opening day last week, Vishinsky had to yield the spotlight to a strong-jawed newcomer from the Caribbean: fabulous Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, 61, who since 1930 has run the lush, green little Dominican Republic like a private plantation, piling up wealth by the tens of millions and crushing all opposition with iron ruthlessness. Trujillo had left his brother Héctor in charge at home and taken...
Sharing the spotlight with the Cliffe student will be national sharing champ Dick Button 11 and Rugh Graham '55 Button will skate part of his '52 Olympic feature before the more than 1800 guests of the Big Green Outing Club...