Word: taking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sharpest backfire came for a pair of Carters. Democrat Steven V. Carter, 43, of Leon, Iowa, listed his 19-year-old son Steven as his public-relations assistant, at a salary of $11,872.26 a year. Steve's job, explained Congressman Carter proudly, is to "take care of the folks who come in from Iowa, let them know what I'm doing, help them enjoy themselves." Young Carter, a part-time prelaw student at nearby George Washington University, insists that he puts in 40 hours a week on the job-although his morning class schedule scarcely permits...
Cemented Partnership. The jukebox musclemen never hesitated to take direct action. Brooklyn Jukebox Operator Sidney Saul sobbed as he recalled the night two years ago when a trio of ex-convicts fed nickels into one of his own machines to drown out his screams, and thoroughly thumped him until he agreed to split his profits. The bulk of the beating was administered by a workmanlike hoodlum named Ernest "Kippy" Filocomo. Said Saul: "He began punching me in the head and face. When I pleaded for him to stop, they kept saying to each other, 'This fellow...
...Berlin by May 27. "Some excessively belligerent figures in the West," thundered Khrushchev, "say that should control over the access routes to West Berlin be turned over to the East Germans, they would fight their way through by force of arms. Only people who do not take account of the facts could reason this way. Soviet forces are stationed in East Germany, and they are not there to play skittles . . . We advise all those who are trying to rattle their sabers: If you feel nervous, take a cold shower and calm down. Otherwise there is danger to peace...
...Take It or Leave It. To Makarios' suite at the Dorchester Hotel went Sir Hugh Foot, the British Governor of Cyprus, who has gained Makarios' confidence. For 90 minutes Foot made an urgent and eloquent plea to Makarios to summon up the courage to argue back with his advisers...
Greek Premier Constantine Karamanlis put it to Makarios bluntly. The Greek government was already bound by the Zurich agreement and had no intention of going back on it. Karamanlis laid down an ultimatum: take this agreement or bear the blame for wrecking the conference. With twelve hours to decide, Makarios spent the night "in prayer and reflection." Next morning at 8 he summoned his advisers, told them that he had decided to accept the agreement. The steamroller had worked...