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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...done for 10 years, Lodge emphasized that all disarmament measures had to be subject to foolproof inspection and controls to be safe, worthwhile and acceptable to the U.S. As he and his predecessors had done for 10½ years, Soviet First Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily Kuznetsov countered with the usual propaganda talk about disarming and banning the bomb, with no assurances about foolproof inspection and controls-an attitude Lodge termed "bitterly discouraging...
...Archie Old said at last, "I've got to go. We went through four nights and three days in the air while you people were going through two nights and two days,-and I guess I aged a little faster than usual...
Massachusetts. Democrat Foster Furcolo shocked his tradition-bound state by banning the usual inauguration ball, holding not one but three swearing-in ceremonies, in which he eschewed customary platitudes and struck at Massachusetts' cash situation (needed to meet current costs: $25 million in new revenue). Further cause for alarm among the old regulars: plenty of Furcolo affability, no Furcolo promises...
Kovacs won the comparison test, hands down. He put together a half-hour quite different from his usual garrulous routines and his role as sometime host on NBC's Tonight. Instead, Producer-Writer Kovacs buttoned his lip tight and proved himself TV's most inventive master of pantomime, sight gags and sound effects. When he opened a copy of Camille, a female cough came out of it. He educed a knowing chuckle from the inscrutable Mona Lisa, and screwed up his rubbery face with Chaplinesque glee as Baby Doll rolled out of her famed crib. As Eugene...
...President's Inaugural Address was phrased in the usual "evangelical" fashion, as the Manchester Guardian put it. But his idealism was for once aimed, and not merely sprayed over the surface, and this is most encouraging. Most exciting was his elaboration of American obligations, based not only upon fear but upon a concept of positive international justice...