Word: assets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...major Republican asset is the "sense of gratitude-which the China crisis has strengthened-that 'Eisenhower has kept us out of war.'" But Lubell noted "a significant change of attitude from two years ago." Today many voters "are looking to Washington for more vigorous leadership." The voters still like Ike (the Gallup poll this week found his popularity down 2% from August but still a healthy 56%). But the feeling is mostly personal, and Lubell found "a deep concern that Eisenhower may no longer be the master of the White House...
...talk about it"). In rural Iowa, Murray's burnished phrases have less appeal than Loveless' lacerated syntax, and his urbane presence (Loveless loves to refer to him as "the college professor") is a liability, whereas the stocky, rumpled figure of ex-Railroader Loveless is a definite campaign asset. Democrat Loveless can pit his veto of a state sales-tax increase against Murray's campaign cry for a higher sales tax. But in the day of rising resentment against labor racketeering, the Republicans have a brass-knuckled charge that the 1956 Loveless campaign was financed...
Damn Yankees (Warner). Hollywood's version of Broadway's long-running (2½ years) marriage of baseball and Beelzebub seems sure to draw more customers than the Los Angeles Dodgers, even though it too requires a screen. In this case the screen is an asset. Co-Directors George Abbott (who did the stage musical) and Stanley Donen have lathered it with offbeat color effects and the kind of all-over-the-lot bounce that on Broadway could only be suggested. As a cinemusical, Yankees manages to steal home by a wide margin...
...airlessness, which will always be hard on humans who try to colonize the moon. Last week Dr. Peter A. Cas-truccio, director of Westinghouse Electric Corp.'s newly formed Astronautics Institute, pointed out one way to turn the moon's lack of atmosphere into an asset. Manufacturers of electronic tubes, he said, go to pains to pump air out of them so that the air will not interfere with the electrons. On the moon this is not necessary. The whole moon has a better vacuum than any manmade vacuum tube...
...meeting people but not the energy to cope with issues," says a top California Democrat. Adds a close friend lamely: "While he may be a guy who is not too aggressive administratively, he frankly recognizes deficiencies where they appear. He is honest about them. It's a real asset...