Word: thoughte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Give Him a Welcome." In their discussion of U.S.-Soviet problems, Stevenson thought he detected a softening of the Russian position. "Maybe it's not so much a matter of 'give,' " he said, "as of education." Khrushchev himself "has changed a little since I saw him last summer. I feel better about him now." Such informed talk could not help enhancing Stevenson's stature as an authority on foreign relations-a reputation every candidate in the 1960 race eagerly seeks...
...Milk v. the Cream. Hard as they pounded at their pension scheme, the Laborites still sorely needed a major issue to stir an emotional response to their cry: "Are you getting your share of the prosperity?" They thought they had one as London newspapers suddenly began to blaze with headlines about the strange stock machinations of one Harry Jasper and the 450-odd "companies" of which he is a director. On the London stock exchange, dealings in $55 million worth of securities associated with Jasper's name were summarily suspended; day after day scores of worried investors clustered outside...
...hard-working newsmen, the first commandment of the profession is: get the story. Following this time-honored tradition under the hard eye of a demanding editor, a good reporter or photographer, haunted by the thought of being scooped, will use any trick of brain or brawn that he can devise. When more than 300 reporters and photographers are thrown together to cover one of the biggest stories any of them ever covered, all the tricks piled one on another can produce a near riot. Last week, as the U.S. press covered Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's tour...
...bulletins poured in to the state department of health. By week's end, the department reported that a strange and deadly malady was reaching alarming proportions: 19 people had been hospitalized, nine had died. The symptoms were the same: headache, nausea, delirium, then coma and convulsions. Some doctors thought it was bulbar polio; others considered it meningitis. But though New Jersey's health department had not yet issued a blanket diagnosis, most doctors thought they knew what it was: Eastern equine encephalitis, one of the most feared forms (a 75% death rate) of a disease for which medical...
...held in awe as a kind of national monument. When Saynatsalo allowed the electric-light company to erect a hideous neon advertising sign that marred the view, Aalto led a night boat-raiding party, stoned the offending sign to smithereens. The electric company started to sue for damages, then thought better...