Word: standing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...them that he should be allowed to interview the prisoner, who put on a tie for the occasion. De Carvalho's exclusive interview aroused the ire of Rio newspapermen, none of whom had been allowed to see Birrell. But like newsmen everywhere, they did not let professional jealousy stand in the way of a story, reproduced TIME articles and besieged De Carvalho for more details...
...reiterated demands that the West could not agree to without, in effect, weakening Berlin and laying West Germany itself open to Moscow meddling. Early in the week Herter with lawyerlike logic spelled out Western objections, wound up by threatening to break off the talks unless Russia modified its stand. Gromyko then made a largely meaningless procedural concession, and agreed to discuss Berlin "simultaneously" with Russian plans for an All-German Commission. So eager is British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd to keep the talking going in Geneva so that he would not have to explain a breakoff to the House...
...home. There's no getting the Germans down!" Mildred, if she lives so long, will be sprung in 1979, not counting the ten years off that she could get for good behavior. But it was learned last week that Traitor Gillars, eligible for parole last March, took her stand two months earlier, gave no reason but waived all rights to review and parole...
...Senator Hubert Humphrey, the only formally declared candidate for the presidency,* has a problem. His campaign managers have carefully written a moderate's role for him. on the reasonable theory that it will be popular with the voters. But whenever Humphrey takes the speaker's stand, he invariably throws the script away and becomes a wildcat liberal, promising the world to his listeners. "And the people in front of him just don't want the world right now," explains a worried Humphrey advocate. In his offstage moments, Humphrey himself senses the public's present wariness...
...Bunche had no plans to push Ralph Jr. through the West Side's newly opened door. He had amply proved his point. "This has not been a pleasant experience, and I'm glad it is over," said Bunche Sr. "In this community, happily, bigotry cannot long stand the heat of public exposure...