Word: wording
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jaunty in sport coat and slacks, Defense Secretary Neil Hosier McElroy emerged from the three-day supersecret conference of top U.S. military leaders at Quantico, Va. last week with a word for reporters. He had nothing much to say about clamping down on interservice rivalry, nor about the decision that he must eventually, some day, take on what ground-to-air missiles the U.S. will deploy to defend itself. Instead Secretary McElroy noted that five of the.U.S.'s Atlas "operational" intercontinental missiles had failed in consecutive test firings, announced that Atlas would be delayed for "not less than...
After the hopeful anti-Soviet stirrings of October 1956, the Polish Defense Ministry announced that it was about to add an important American book to its historical series on World War II. Finally, last week, after unexplained delays, the book was out, and the censor did not alter a word. It was Krucjata w Europie (Crusade in Europe), by Dwight D. Eisenhower. Its price: 90 zlotys ($3.75), or a day and a half's pay for the average Polish worker. Within 48 hours after Krucjata hit the stands, all 10,000 copies were sold...
...after seeing the best that North Viet Nam had to offer, Sukarno departed for home, where he has troubles of his own, and where Lieut. General Abdul Haris Nasution, who has run Indonesia in Sukarno's absence, summed up Indonesia's current situation in one word: "Gloomy...
...Word sifted from the State Department that Career Diplomat Charles E. T. ("Chip") Bohlen, 54, longtime (1950-57) Russian-speaking U.S. Ambassador to the U.S.S.R., and since then Ambassador to the Philippines, may soon go back to Washington, become top adviser of State's brand-new Soviet-affairs desk...
...Beatrice and Benedick, Rosemary Harris and Barry Morse make a strong pair of unwilling lovers, spitting out their wit with clarity and verve. Miss Harris properly "speaks poniards, and every word stabs"; and Morse "hath a heart as sound as a bell and his tongue is the clapper...