environment. The sum total of all surroundings of a living organism, including natural forces and other living things, which provide conditions for development and growth as well as of danger and damage.
Under subpoena in 1948, he testified in what became Alger Hiss's perjury (espionage) trials (1949â1950) and he became an outspoken anti-communist (all described in his 1952 memoir Witness). Afterwards, he worked briefly as a senior editor at National Review (1957â1959). President Ronald Reagan awarded him the Medal of Freedom posthumously in 1984.
The second team only served to buttress the findings of the first team-the typewriter couldn't have belonged to Hiss at the time in question. Hiss' first trial lawyer sensed it, but couldn't prove it. He told Hiss, Alger, something's wrong with that typewriter. Murphy's [the prosecutor] afraid of it.