Word: counting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Nobel Committeemen were not the first Scandinavians to recognize Ralph Bunche's talents as a peacemaker. Sent to Palestine in 1948 as assistant to U.N. Mediator Count Folke Bernadotte of Sweden, Bunche had quickly won the count's friendship and admiration. After Bernadotte's assassination by Israeli terrorists in September 1948, Bunche carried on Bernadotte's job. At his headquarters on the Aegean Island of Rhodes the American charmed, cajoled and sometimes bullied testy, mistrustful Arab and Israeli peace negotiators. Bunche worked tirelessly 16 to 20 hours a day, lighting one cigarette off another and drinking...
...other Socialists the result was tonic: when the division bells had stopped ringing the count was 300 for, 306 against Churchill's motion...
...Promises. Of the three, stiff-backed General Gomes could count on the most solid, unsplit block of votes, the same 2,000,000 he won as Dutra's runnerup in 1945. But many Brazilians wrote him off as a crusty aristocrat, and the Brigadeiro characteristically refused to cut loose with the slashing spiels that might win him wider backing. "I have built my house," he snapped. "Now I can't add any more floors to it." Dutra's Candidate Machado was even less disposed to lash out from the stump. But the mild little man from Minas...
Died. Alvaró de Figueroa y Torres, Count de Romanones, 87, "el travieso conde" (the mischievous count), one of Spain's richest grandees, thrice Premier under the late King Alfonso XIII; in Madrid. A sturdy Monarchist, whose Punch-like profile was once a symbol of Bourbon Spain for European political cartoonists, Count de Romanones retired from active politics in 1931, soon after the Republicans forced the King into exile...
...Cooke is laudably fair as a reporter, the title of his book is a misnomer -one that his introduction labors unsuccessfully to justify. He concedes that "though the count was perjury, the implied charge [against Alger Hiss] was espionage." At the same time, he works overtime to imply that Hiss's whole generation should now be saying to itself, there but for the grace...