Word: attackers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eisenhower's observation marked a relatively happy ending to a week that began with real, if carefully suppressed, White House and State Department anxieties. The President was gravely troubled by the possibility of "another Spain," i.e., an attack on France from army strongholds in North Africa. What should the U.S. do if paratroops invaded France to install De Gaulle by force and the government appealed to foreign powers for help? De Gaulle himself answered: "I could not consent to receive power from any source but the people, or at least its representatives." Top State Department officials formed a working...
...year ago, when Anderson replaced hearty George Humphrey, it looked to some Republicans as though Treasury might have swapped rock salt for gelatin. Humphrey was categorical, authoritative (said a Cabinet member: "When George speaks, everybody listens"), and dogmatically orthodox. He even inspired last year's hard congressional attack on defense spending and foreign aid by warning that, if spending were not cut, "You will have a depression that will curl your hair...
...Algiers 100,000 Gaullists poured into the streets to celebrate their triumph over Paris. There were searchlights making giant Vs for victory, flares shooting into the sky and bands playing. In the excitement, one man died of a heart attack, 40 fainted or were trampled under foot, and 100 children got lost. From the balcony of the Government General Building came incessant loudspeaker exhortations: "Let the torches through, please. . . . That's it . . . Bravo les torches...
...Some of its takeoff experts believe that B58 intermediate bombers (weight: 150,000 lbs.) and even enormous B-52 heavy bombers (weight: over 400,000 lbs.) can be blasted off trailers. If this proves true, bombers can be dispersed so widely on their trailers that even a heavy surprise attack will not destroy them...
Died. Michael J. ("Umbrella Mike") Boyle, 77, tough longtime boss of Chicago's electrical workers, who twice (1921 and 1937) threw the city into blackout paralysis; of a heart attack; in Miami. Boyle was nicknamed for his tactful method of collecting bribes; in Johnson's saloon, his unofficial headquarters on West Madison Street, he would hang his big cotton bumbershoot on the edge of the bar, discuss terms with "clients," disappear while they slipped the cash into the umbrella. One reported result: when the law wanted to know how he had managed to save $350,000 in eight...