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...brother Hermann sauntered through the Iron Curtain countries like welcome guests. Whittaker Chambers said Noel was a friend of Alger Hiss and a Communist agent; the Communists said he worked for the U.S. "imperialists." His sister said Noel and his whole family were just "Quaker-Liberals" who were "arch-individualists...
Last week Noel and Herta Field popped back into sight as the Hungarian government announced their release from political prison. The Fields' reaction was typically "arch-individualistic"-instead of dashing for freedom, they elected to repair to a Hungarian hospital and hole up, incommunicado. Hermann, released with apologies three weeks earlier by Poland with the admission that it had all been a terrible mistake, flew to Zurich, where CIA agents slapped a cloak of security around him and hustled him off to a secret reunion with his wife. No one could yet be sure whether the Fields, individually...
...President Wilson, at least, any final adjustment will be second best to one he proposed half a century ago. Wore he alive today, the great Princeton educator undoubtedly would have said. "I told you so."In the afternoon on the campus historle Blair Arch frames Locknart Hall...
...past two years. They will be able to institute needed measures that were quite forgotten by the 83rd Congress, such as revision of the Taft-Hartley Law and a realistic immigration policy. More important, they will be able to organize both Houses--to replace as majority leaders such arch-isolationists as Senator William Knowland and Representative Joseph Martin. And publicity-happy demagogues like McCarthy, Jenner, and Velde will lose their chairmanships. The security program would proceed with more sense and less sensation. Two years ago, the Republicans came into office saying it was "time for a change." The nation...
...Laura it is a developing Webb that holds one's interest. Watching him learn to set his sneering lip just so, arch a well-trimmed eye-brow at a studied angle, and tinge his voice with the exact tone of what passes for atrophying scorn, provides an interesting two hours. In the context of a middling good detective story, the early Webb is irrestible...