Word: versions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reds accused Downey and Fecteau of being Central Intelligence agents who were captured when their C-47 was trying to drop supplies to Chinese spy teams they had trained. The official U.S. version of the disappearance of Downey and Fecteau is that they were on a routine flight from Seoul to Tokyo when their plane vanished two years ago. In connection with the charges against Downey and Fecteau, the Chinese Reds announced that since 1951 they had executed 106 special U.S. agents; presumably, all or most of these victims were Chinese...
...forcibly detained at a political meeting in San Mateo last October. Everyone agreed that Heavey had shouted, "Tell us a dog story, Dick," in the midst of a televised speech, and that the Vice President had ignored the heckling until after the broadcast. Then, according to one version of the story, Secret Service men had held Heavey on Nixon's orders, while the Vice President publicly scolded him for his rudeness. Afterwards, Heavey was hustled from the hall and thrown down. Heavey asked $150,000 in damages...
Nixon's friends gave a different version of what happened. After the broadcast, they said, Nixon told the audience that in 200 public appearances no one before Heavey had been rude enough to heckle while Nixon was on the air. The Secret Service men, charged by law with protecting the Vice President, had not stepped in until Heckler Heavey had picked up a used flashbulb and made a threatening gesture with it. At that point, Nixon's witnesses say, a posse of Secret Service men escorted Heavey outside, where he tripped on some television wires and fell...
...were strongly against the Eisenhower Administration's liberalization of the Federal Housing Act. Since it has been liberalized, they think similar benefits should be extended to their business. There is also a deep-seated belief, as Howard Edgerton says, that "the U.S. doesn't need a liberalized version...
...evaluation is the first extensive study of the House system since the Report on Advising in Harvard College was issued on Nov. 22, 1950. This "Bender Report" advocated group tutorial and the House dean version of senior tutors...