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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...past six weeks, Republican Smith had searched her own soul and weighed her conscience. She had also talked things over with fellow members of a small group of Republican progressives in the Senate, and found that they agreed with her. She drafted what she called a "Declaration of Conscience," and got them to sign it with her-New Hampshire's Tobey, Vermont's Aiken, Oregon's Morse, New York's Ives, Minnesota's Thye, New Jersey's Hendrickson. Thus armed she took the floor to make her case...
...stream of lava boiled through the fishing village of Pahoehoe to the sea cliff, dropped 100 ft., steaming and hissing into the water. At week's end the lava still flowed. It would probably be the biggest outpouring from, the world's biggest volcano in the past 70 years...
...diplomatic squabble, which seemed concerned merely with formalities, was a deep and real conflict. As in most other recent instances when Britain was urged to participate in measures toward Western European integration, the Labor government was afraid that the Schuman Plan would interfere with its planned economy. In the past, British leaders have tended to deny or at least to evade the charge that the Labor Party's national socialism stood in the way of British cooperation with Europe. Last week some Labor spokesmen were more frank. Wrote Wilfred Fienburgh, the Labor Party's newly appointed research secretary...
...aircraft carrier Ark Royal, and all Bebington was astir to greet her. Streets were hung with naval pennants, shopfronts blossomed in bunting. As bobbies took up stations along the main street to the shipyards, Bebingtonians by the thousands pressed close to cheer the royal Daimler as it sped past. Dustman Cooper was spending the day as usual, driving his garbage truck through the streets, and taking what satisfaction he could from the fact that his truck was a spanking brand-new one, red and shiny as a fire engine...
...appearing as witnesses, quickly shifted from the case at hand to standard denunciations of the Marshall Plan and the atom bomb (U.S. brand). Prim in a navy pin-striped suit, Raymonde smiled, blew kisses to her husband of seven months, once fell asleep when the trial session dragged on past midnight. She admitted her crime "proudly," said she did it because "I hate...