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Denver-born George Atcheson Jr., 50, entered the State Department 27 years ago as a student interpreter at the Peiping Legation, had specialized in Far Eastern affairs ever since. As second secretary of the Nanking Embassy, he was aboard the gunboat Panay when it was bombed and sunk by the Japanese in 1937. Two years later he was recalled to Washington for a stint on State's Far Eastern desk, returned to China as embassy counselor in Chungking...
...Stassenites were not perturbed by the fact that many in the U.S. thought of them as impractical zealots, or that Stassen's Gallup poll rating had sunk in the last 15 months from 34% to 15%. They listened with patient and slightly puzzled expressions to a question-&-answer joke which politicians of both parties were happily repeating among themselves...
France, so often a beacon of Western civilization, was sunk in torpor. Silly fads, from existentialism to intimatism, ruffled the scum at the surface of French thought...
There was no evidence of skulduggery. Builder Hughes had reportedly sunk $7,000,000 of his own cash into the project. The Government money involved was peanuts by wartime standards: $18 million. At worst it was just another wartime idea gone sour, at some cost in time, materials and manpower...
...fired eleven workers who had joined a C.I.O. union, he said he was following the biblical exhortation: "Cast out the scorner and strife shall cease." On his return to the plant, Beltram, who presides at daily Bible classes for his workers, found that the lessons had sunk in. Pickets greeted him with a sign on which they too quoted freely from the Bible: "Masters, give unto your workers that which is just and equal." After another look at his Bible, Beltram rehired his workers, signed a union contract...