Word: truths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blood pressure 125 over 70, temperature normal, pulse 70. Scheduled to begin this week: radiation therapy, the only treatment advisable for the serious condition of free-floating cancer cells. From Dulles' sister, Eleanor Lansing Dulles, a State Department Germany expert, came the closest approach to the truth that is possible in such a situation: "It is grave. There is no question about it. But Foster has more than the normal power of selfdiscipline, and in his case it isn't wise to go on averages...
...necessary to re-examine the fundamentals. They are fixed, solid and unshaken." The crucial point: whatever the "tactical flexibility" deployed for the inevitable Big Four talks on Germany this spring, the West is still fixed, solid and unshaken on the basic proposition that to Communism there is no truth, and faith can be extended only to agreements that can be checked, patrolled and examined every step...
...boss, Anastas Mikoyan, came to the U.S. last month, the State Department decided to try again. But amiable Anastas turned back the pleas of both Vice President Nixon and Secretary of State Dulles; he was, in fact, highly irritated by U.S. insistence that the Russians were withholding the truth, as well as the eleven men. State decided to give the Russians just one more chance: perhaps Mikoyan would swing around after he returned to Moscow and talk it over with other officials...
...Chicago for a short story reading, button-eyed Writer Dorothy Parker, 65, astounded newsmen with a shimmering new hairdo that banished her longstanding trademark: languidly cascading dark bangs. Why so? "To tell the truth," confided Dorothy, "I had to give up bangs. Too dangerous. They caught fire when I lit a cigarette...
...cutting out all seemingly offensive passages. Editor Albert Bigelow Paine tried to keep Mark Twain's reputation as spotless as his linen. In 1940 Bernard DeVoto published another portion of the manuscript. Now Charles Neider, novelist and essayist, gives what seems closest to the truth of the matter...