Word: patchwork
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When patchwork U.S. arrangements for handling Hungarian refugees strained at the seams under the pressure of the Hungarian crisis last November, President Eisenhower named Tracy S. Voorhees, New York lawyer and onetime (1949-50) Army Under Secretary, as his personal representative for Hungarian refugee relief. Voorhees, aided by a hard-working committee, quietly stitched away on the assignment for three months, then resigned because "the emergency phase" of Hungarian resettlement had ended. By last week it was clear how well Voorhees &.Co. had done their job: of the 29,000 Hungarians received at New Jersey's Camp Kilmer...
TIME captions U.N. Delegate Knowland as "a bulldozer in the forest" on the question of sanctions for Israel. Knowland is urging consistent application of principles of international justice and morality to all nations alike; Dulles and Eisenhower have erected a crazy-quilt patchwork of inconsistency in foreign policy, and Knowland will lead them out of the woods if they will only stop and listen...
...image gives one a wider sense of communication." Now hitting his stride. Muller appears in all three museum shows. His Of This Time, Of That Place (opposite) at the Whitney is a large-scale (4 ft. by 8 ft.) canvas with looming white nudes set against a luxuriant patchwork landscape that draws its theme from Goethe's Erlk...
...amount of last-minute patchwork, however, could disguise the fact that the Communists and their front men still held the first mortgage on Pietro Nenni and his party. Said angry Giuseppe Saragat: "The voting figures speak clearly: 30% of the Socialist Party tends toward social democracy; 70% tends toward or is actually anchored to pro-Communism." As for reuniting all of Italy's Socialists, said Saragat. this would now be "enormously delayed...
...this continent of 5,000,000 square miles-three-fourths as big as the U.S. and Canada combined-is a geologic throwback to the Ice Age. It is the world's most hostile environment of earth and air, a land of near motionless molecules and rapacious winds, a patchwork of ice fields with blue-seamed crevasses and jumbled hummock beds, all set tenuously on a continent rumbling with pressure and restless with movement...