Word: bobbing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...North Africa invasion, U.S. Foreign Service Officer Robert Daniel Murphy worked with the French underground so brilliantly that he worked out an all-but-bloodless surrender of Algiers. Last week, rated by the same Eisenhower as the U.S.'s No. 1 global troubleshooter, Under Secretary of State Bob Murphy announced his resignation...
...Bob Murphy was in every sense a U.S.-style professional's professional. Born and bred in Milwaukee, the son of an Irish-American railroad steam fitter, Murphy worked as a railroad fireman, blacksmith, day laborer, construction straw boss, stenographer in a lithographing company, worked his way through Marquette Academy and George Washington University...
...Lebanon crisis in August 1958: "You know, we have the power to destroy your positions in a matter of seconds. We haven't used it. We hope we don't have to." He did not have to. Amid rising talk of an "understanding" with world Communism, Bob Murphy preferred to keep the peace with a discreetly muscular policy based on a cool assessment of Communism's performance and potential...
...faults, gave his immense talent full range. Somerset Maugham's biting novel of a man in the grip of artistic demons was formidable for transformation into less than 90 minutes of television drama. Before Playwright S. Lee (People Kill People Sometimes) Pogostin was called in, along with Director Bob Mulligan, two other scriptwriters had fumbled the job. After 48 hours packed with pencil work, pep pills and black coffee, Pogostin and Mulligan had built a play that pleased both Olivier and Producer David Susskind. In the process, they lost some of the novel's dark energy; they never...
Club vice-president Warren Young feels that the team can certainly match the opposition in rugby experience, and probably also in power. Two new men, freshman Bob Downing at outisde center and Dick McGugan at prop, round out an already powerful group, and give the Crimson its best fall squad in years...