Word: standings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President of the U.S. last week told the Communist world that the U.S. would fight before it would see the Chinese Communists seize Quemoy. He told restive free world allies that, with or without them, the U.S. was determined to stand against the kind of appeasement that led down the road to World War II. And inferentially, he warned the U.S. not to be surprised to find the Armed Forces fighting to defend Quemoy-not for the rocky real estate but for the principle that armed force shall not be used for aggressive purposes. "I know something about . . . war," said...
...policymaker continued, "is that there has been a letdown all over the world. It's a question whether the world has got back into the Munich mood, and the American people too. That's the big issue-whether the world is aroused enough to take a stand. That's what the Chinese and Soviets are taking advantage of. That's the big issue, not Quemoy and Matsu. In the last four years there has been a very marked growth in the quality of appeasement, the idea of not getting involved in other people's fights...
...better in the general election than in the primary. Shiniest Republican statewide hopeful: Newcomer William B. Bantz, 40, burly, personable former U.S. district attorney from Spokane, his party's nominee to unhorse Democrat Senator Henry M. Jackson. Big Bill campaigned hard for regulation of labor unions ("My stand on labor bosses is damn popular"), polled 136,000 votes, about 100,000 more than anyone expected him to get, set starved Washington Republicans hollering, that Bill Bantz was their white hope for the future. But it looks like a distant future: "Scoop" Jackson, running against admittedly feeble party competition, took...
...Evening Standard column next day, Churchill burbled. "I was lucky enough to see the Prime Minister last night, and am happily in a position to tell the world that Britain will stand by the U.S. in the Far East." Instantly, there was a howl of outrage. Journalists complained that Churchill had violated the spirit of the hallowed rule that no British reporter may quote directly the informal statements of the Prime Minister on an important or delicate issue. Laborite politicians charged that Macmillan seemed to be committing Britain to fight for Quemoy, alongside...
...chipmunk entitled Nibbles and Me. Ah, youth! Today every movie fan from Pomona to Pago Pago knows that when Elizabeth Taylor nibbles, it isn't chipmunks. And so when Liz got involved with a laddie who wouldn't come home and a lassie who wouldn't stand for it, Hollywood was in the midst of one of those major, publicity-churning crises. Trouble was that she had picked on two absolutely living dimpled dolls-Eddie Fisher, that wholesome, bubbly Coca-Cola boy, and his child bride, Debbie...