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Harry Truman got a medal and dropped a hint last week. For his "endeavors on behalf of the state of Israel," the National Committee for Labor Israel gathered in the White House rose garden to present him with the 1951 Histadrut Humanitarian Award. General Chairman Joseph Schlossberg, in reading the citation, hoped God would grant the President "many more years in the service of our country and humanity...
...trouble with the army, was undoubtedly in need of all the popular election support his ailing wife could win him. She had made her dramatic appearance in defiance of doctors' orders. The official press had already announced that she would soon submit to an operation-the first hint that she was suffering from more than anemia. At week's end it was reported that one of Evita's doctors had flown to New York to fetch the specialist who would perform the operation...
...Hint. Three days later, a Pravda reporter got further details from Joe Stalin himself. Asked the reporter: "What is your opinion of the hubbub raised recently in the foreign press in connection with the test of an atom bomb in the Soviet Union?" Replied Stalin: "Indeed, one of the types of atom bombs was recently tested in our country. Tests of atom bombs of different calibers will be conducted in the future as well." He repeated the Communist propaganda line that the Soviet Union stands for outlawing atomic bombs. Most Russians do not know that the U.S.S.R. has wrecked...
...atomic pundits speculated that the blast had gone off some time within the last month, were surprised that it hadn't come sooner. By now, they estimated, Russia may have stockpiled between 20 and 100 bombs. Stalin's reference to "different calibers" was taken as a hint that Russia, too, was on the trail of tactical atomic weapons...
...nation while the nation slept. The most important of these was James Vincent Forrestal, Secretary of the Navy, and in 1947, the Secretary of Defense. Not until Forrestal jumped to his death from the 16th floor of the Bethesda Naval Hospital, in May 1949, did the world catch a hint of how exhausting the battle had been...