Word: statement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...administrative assistant to the late Vincent Astor, and temporary administrator of his estate, I am distressed to find that TIME, in its issue of Aug. 3, published an erroneous statement to the effect that Captain Astor was a patient in the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic at the time his will was being drawn. It grew out of a witness' unfortunate confusion between the Baker Pavilion of New York Hospital and the Payne Whitney clinic. The fact is that the late Captain Astor was never at any time in his life in the Payne Whitney clinic, or in any other...
...Statement of Faith...
...belated but appreciative thank you for your July 20 report on the United Church of Christ. I mentioned in my sermon of last Sunday in reviewing the Oberlin General Synod how TIME had printed the adopted Statement of Faith, and its importance to all Protestants...
...evidence is overwhelming," said Director Allen Dulles of the Central Intelligence Agency, "that the Soviets intend to use nuclear blackmail as a major weapon to promote their objectives-namely, to spread Communism through out the world." Dulles' rare public statement was read to reporters as he emerged from a closed-door session with 45 U.S. Governors, meeting last week in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Behind the doors Dulles provided some classified details to back up the most serious proposal before the annual Governors' conference: U.S. Governors should take the lead in getting their citizens to build nuclear-fallout...
...Hong Kong last week, experts on Red China read and reread this statement: "To speak of greatness in a man is not to say that he is always correct." What lent fascination to this seemingly innocuous sentence from Peking's New China SemiMonthly was the fact that the Chinese word it used for "greatness" is one the Reds usually reserve for Mao Tse-tung. With customary bafflegab. Peking was publicly admitting that Chairman Mao has been forced into a humiliating retreat by the stubbornness of "The Old Hundred Names"-Red China's faceless peasant masses...