Word: falling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Rebuttal. But McCarthy had shown signs of shifting from his "bad 81" too. Instead he had offered to let his case against the State Department stand or fall on Professor Owen Lattimore of Johns Hopkins University. Again last week Lattimore took the stand in rebuttal, there showed himself a match for McCarthy-or the Daily Worker-in the technique of the vituperative smear. McCarthy, he said, was a "professional character assassin," Budenz "... a twisted and malignant personality...
Then he dropped Wallace and the Progressive Party, and still not warming to Harry Truman, came out for Dwight Eisenhower in 1948. When Eisenhower declined, Pepper announced his own candidacy. "This is no gesture," he said grandiosely. "This is a fight." But the fight was just talk. The fall of 1948 saw him campaigning earnestly for Truman. And the election of Truman saw Pepper tucking himself safely back in the Fair Deal nest...
...fall of 1948, not far from the Red center of Bologna, a Christian Democrat labor organizer, Giuseppe Fanin, 26, was found battered and dying on a roadside. He had been hit on the head with an iron bar, kicked in the belly with nailed boots because he had urged farm laborers to secede from the CGIL. In May 1949, Anselmo Martoni, 30, a moderate Socialist, urged the braccianti (landless peasants) of Molinella to defy a Communist strike order. He was waylaid and slugged. Red bullyboys tried vainly to browbeat his mother into signing a paper declaring her son a bastard...
...twelve years, Soprano Dorothy Kirsten has traveled from torch singing in "a joint in New Jersey" to the stage of the Metropolitan Opera. Not content with this success story, she signed up last fall to sing popular songs with Frank Sinatra on Light-Up Time (weekdays, 7 p.m. E.D.T., NBC). Last week, with Sinatra suffering from a sore throat, Dorothy Kirsten took over as M.C. of the show. "I'm a long-hair with shorthair moments," she explains. "People forget that I learned how to swing before I learned the classics...
...Princeton administration is encouraging large-scale apple-polishing upon the recommendation of the Harbison Report on Undergraduate-Faculty Relations. If successful this term, and if undergraduate grades rise appreciably, the system will be continued next fall...