Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that "war budgets can be passed, disarmament conferences torpedoed and peaceful coexistence deferred." His exception was the U.S. Supreme Court, "one of the most liberal bodies in the U.S. in recent times." "We are visiting this peace-loving country," he said, "and we are enjoying an interesting and restful trip." Another announcement of the week, from Moscow: the U.S.S.R. next year will publish Martha Dodd's latest book, The Searching Light...
They were joined by U.S. Deputy Under Secretary of State Loy W. Henderson, a veteran Middle East diplomat who had hustled off to Istanbul from Washington (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Henderson's trip would serve to quietly underscore the fact that though the U.S. is not a full member of the Baghdad Pact, she has joined its military committee, and can be expected to participate in any military discussions by pact members...
Last week Stephan was all primed to take off on a vacation with his wife and 15-year-old son in his new Volkswagen. There was just one more chore to do before the fishing trip. A lot of old Russian shells had been fished out of Berlin's Havel River and brought to the police explosives site on the city's outskirts. To Stephan the job seemed routine. But as he unscrewed the fuse of a six-inch grenade, friction may have touched off a spark. The shell went up with a great explosion. When the smoke...
...Manhattan office (which used to be J. P. Morgan's Madison Avenue mansion) or his house in suburban New Rochelle. In the last two years he has circled the globe, visited Russia, India, Australia, Hungary in line of duty. And in the U.S. he makes a field trip about once a month to visit some of his denomination's 4,050 churches...
...happy niche as a freewheeling outsider in the carefully regulated air transport business. Every other scheduled transatlantic line belongs to the International Air Transport Association, which sets industry-wide fares for one and all. Icelandic is outside I.A.T.A. With its lumbering, low-overhead DC-45, it flies round trip from New York to London for $469.20 (v. $522 for bigger lines), New York to Oslo for $472.20 (v. $590.60). Says Nicholas Craig, president of the line's U.S. subsidiary, which operates the transatlantic business: "For years the airlines have talked about bringing trans-ocean travel within reach of everybody...