Word: wanted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Norfolk. Then he had read in the papers that the FBI had picked up one Daniel Dough Jr., a part-time copy boy at the Virginian-Pilot, who was identified by the bank teller as the holdup man. Said Anderson: "My conscience bothered me. I didn't want an innocent person to go to jail." An hour later, Anderson surrendered to the Norfolk bureau...
Peking had obviously concluded that the way to handle Nehru was to menace him. Though an articulate denouncer of distant injustices, Nehru now told the press outside the Dalai Lama's house that he did not want "this matter to become a subject of heated exchanges and heated debates. I want to avoid the situation's getting worse." To newsmen eager to talk to the God-King, Nehru replied that he was sure the Dalai Lama was "more interested in a peaceful solution of the Tibetan problem than in press interviews...
...pious airs and express the hope that everyone will go to heaven. But they have turned Tibet into a hell on earth." Another speaker charged that "the British imperialists and Indian expansionists instigated the Tibetan upper-strata reactionary clique to carry out a traitorous armed rebellion . . . We want to warn the Indian expansionists . . . Please be more clear-minded; do not lift a rock that will squash your own feet...
Flutters at Dinner. When Castro stepped out of an elevator at Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station, a crowd of 1,200 surged against police barricades, waving placards and chanting rebel songs. "I want to see the people," said Castro, trying to break through his 200-man guard. His escort hauled Castro off to his car. That night, he drew fluttery glances at a Women Lawyers Association meeting. "Doesn't he remind you of a younger Jimmy Stewart?" one matron asked...
...West Germany's largest wire service, walked out of the board meeting in Cologne's posh Hotel Excelsior Ernst and up to the trim little man who had been waiting in the lobby. The man listened to only a few words before quietly interrupting: "I gather you want...