Word: standard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Standard-Bearer. It was the announcement of Dwight Eisenhower's European trip, to be followed by his exchange of visits with Khrushchev, that brought a tide of praise for the "New Eisenhower" -a phrase used to describe the Eisenhower who had in fact been around for quite a while. And in its every phase, the trip was a tribute to the presidential recognition Ike had been so long in winning...
...land at Cologne-Bonn's Wahn Airport at 6:30 p.m. Bonn time. Bundeswehr artillery fired a 21-gun salute; a band played The Star-Spangled Banner and Deutschlandlied. Old Chancellar Konrad Adenauer, erect and brisk, stepped forward to greet the President, hailed the U.S. as "the standard-bearer of freedom." The President replied: "The name Adenauer has come to symbolize the determination of the German people to remain strong and free...
...Negro youths were arrested for allegedly raping two itinerant white prostitutes in an Alabama freight car, were dragged through interminable trials that included all the cliches of racial conflict: openly bigoted judges, brutal cops, a sullen courthouse mob. The case aroused nationwide protests against the South's double standard of justice, encouraged the Communists to exploit the racial bitterness and provoke a bloody race incident in Alabama. After six years in prison, Roy Wright and three of his companions were finally freed after the state dropped charges. Under public pressure, four others were eventually paroled, and one escaped...
...earth. He sounds thoroughly convincing when he writes, at a moment of high dramatic intensity (a star is blowing up): "Those last exposures did it! ... They show the gaseous shell expanding round the nova. And the speed agrees with your Doppler shifts." His characters may seem as standard as those in any war film (his monsters, though, are quite human), but most science-fiction writers proceed on the assumption, probably correct, that one man's neurosis, however interesting, is not very significant when the solar system he inhabits is about to be demolished...
Santa Fe, N. Mex., Summer Theater: A Shaw standard, Don Juan in Hell...