Word: lateral
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Years later, on the way to Troy, the archer accidentally scratched his foot with one of the poisoned arrows and was cast into exile by his companions, who found the smell of the wound un bearable. When the Greeks learned that only Hercules' arrow could win the war. they persuaded Philoctetes to rejoin the battle, and he promptly slew Trojan Enemy Paris. See SCIENCE, Philoctetes Was Here...
Rusk, the son of a poor Georgia cotton farmer, became a Rhodes scholar, a political-science professor at California's Mills College. A wartime general-staff officer, he later caught the eye of Secretary of State George Marshall, moved into the State Department as a top Marshall aide. He was a leading architect of the Japanese Peace Treaty, played notable roles in bringing both NATO and the Marshall Plan to life. Now a balding, slow-spoken man whose conversation still carries traces of his native Georgia, Dean Rusk, it was reported from the, Kennedy camp, had only...
...Hulan Jack guilty of 1) permitting one Sidney J. Ungar, a tenement tycoon and real estate speculator, to foot the $4,400 bill for decorating Jack's Harlem apartment at a time when Ungar was eagerly seeking a $30 million slum-clearance contract from the city, and 2) later conspiring with Sydney Ungar to conceal the facts from the law. An earlier trial had resulted in a hung jury...
Interjected Pete Thomas: "Look, Willy, what do you say when a guy says you're punk? That's what you're askin' them to do-give in, lose all dignity, all manhood, make punks out of them." That somehow hit home. Minutes later the Sen ators moved into another room to caucus about continuing the feud. When they returned, one shrugged...
...Later on in the afternoon he waxed a bit more serious, but still made his point comfortably in introducing the theme of the International Battalion, Freiheit." "This is a song about men," he explained, "who fought against Hitler, Mussolini, and Franco a few years before it was fashionable...