Word: tioned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fearful Joy, by Joyce Gary. The life & times of Tabitha Baskett ; a new novel by an Englishman who writes in the old meat-and-marrow tradition of English fic tion (TIME...
Pope's broad tolerance and apprecia- tion in the study of art carried over to his painting. The Vose exhibit shows he was a painter who possessed unusual versatility of taste and skill. The showing includes samples of Pope's charcoal portraits, portraiture in oils, and several of his landscapes...
Students and strikers massed at Socialist headquarters, chanted "Ab -di -ca -tion!" and "Leopold to the gallows!" Paul-Henri Spaak doffed the morning coat of a continental diplomat for the shirtsleeves of pavement politics. He appeared at a third-floor window and cried: "We ask the gendarmes to retire. This is a legal demonstration. Gendarmes have no business here." Coatless and bareheaded, Spaak led a parade of his belligerent followers through the city. The crowd noticed a repairman on top of a tram whose guide rope had been torn down by demonstrators. "Come down off that tram...
...Bridges batted first with a soft paw. "Mr. Secretary," he asked across the table, "what do you consider a security risk?" With deadpan seriousness Acheson ticked off departmental regulations on treason, espionage, sus picious association and moral weaknesses that could be "preyed upon." His Deputy Under Secretary for Administra tion, John Peurifoy, added th statistics. Since early 1947, he said, 202 State Department employees (out of 17,000) had resigned in loyalty investigations; 91 of them had been found on morals counts...
...Before you leave," he said to Secretary Acheson, "would you like to make any comment about the Alger Hiss convic tion of perjury?" The Secretary paused a moment on the fateful cue. "Senator, I was not notified that I would have to make any comment," he replied. "If the committee wishes me to explain what I said, I'll do it. I have no desire to do it." He reached into his pocket and pulled out a prepared state ment, and an aide behind him began pass ing out mimeographed texts to newsmen in the room. His hands trembling...