Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Members of Congress.'' says Arkansas' Democratic Representative Wilbur D. (for Daigh) Mills, "are fair but stern judges for each other. After you have been here for a while, you're tabbed as either knowing your subject or not knowing it. I've sought to know my subject." Last week Wilbur Mills, 48, stepped into the powerful job of chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, which shapes the nation's tax legislation. The move, prompted by the death of Tennessee Democrat Jere Cooper (see MILESTONES), followed normal seniority rules, but still...
...pundits who have not yet comprehended the meaning of airpower. At the Geneva summit conference in 1955, Britain's Sir Anthony Eden proposed the establishment of a zone stretching roughly 100 miles on each side of the Iron Curtain in which the armament of both sides would be subject to inspection, and gradually reduced. Eden's plan was premised on the reunification of Germany through free elections. The dividing line would be the eastern border of a reunified Germany, i.e., the present East German border with Poland. Russia, having no intention of reunifying Germany, countered with a proposal...
...hovering Dutch warships. As the government's fury at its own helplessness mounted, Premier Djuanda and Army Chief of Staff Major General Abdul Haris Nasution arbitrarily ruled that "all waters around, between and connecting the islands belonging to the Indonesian archipelago ... are an integral part of national waters, subject to the absolute sovereignty of Indonesia . . ." In Paris, Western diplomats promptly protested that this was an infringement of the freedom of the seas...
...week, began the kind of candid interview that Manhattan might have smothered with a grey-flannel gag. With his lipstick and powder scrubbed away and his long, curled hair combed back, a 22-year-old transvestite named Darrell Wayne Kahler faced the cameras of Confession. He was the latest subject in a line of drug addicts, prostitutes, murderers and alcoholics to answer the unrehearsed questions of Interrogator Jack Wyatt...
...William Rooe Simpson, 60, last of five generations of William Simpsons who operated (from 1822 to 1937) an elegant pawnshop on New York's Lower East Side, blithe lender of money against such collateral as the Hope diamond, a Stradivarius, Titian paintings, 15th century manuscripts and pornographic watches, subject of lively reminiscences (Hockshop); of a heart attack; in Brownsville, Texas...