Word: authored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sputniks and a replica of the Lunik nose cone. "Just think of the millions and millions of miles," he muttered politely. At the model display of the Soviet nuclear icebreaker Lenin, Kozlov shouted in Ike's ear: "That's what we use atomic power for." The President, author of his own wide-ranging atoms-for-peace program, smiled and replied: "I've been preaching that for six years...
...damned liar," exploded the Chief Justice of the United States at a Washington cocktail party last week. Heads turned amid the crush of Justices, Senators, Congressmen and newsmen to see Earl Warren face off against Earl Mazo, 40, New York Herald Tribune reporter and author of the notably fair-minded new biography, Richard Nixon, a Political and Personal Portrait (see BOOKS...
Minutes after being introduced to Mazo, Warren attacked a passage of the book that opened up one of the old sores of California Republicanism: how Nixon won his 1950 Senate race without ever being endorsed by name by Republican Warren, then California's Governor. Author Mazo, complained the Chief Justice, was just trying to "promote the presidential candidacy of Nixon ... I don't care what you write about Nixon as long as you don't try to build him up over my body...
Verbal Contact. Prime Minister Koirala is articulately Western in thought (his favorite author: French Novelist Albert Camus) and has an informal ability to get things done that is rare in inefficient Nepal. A political opponent says: "He keeps his word; that's what counts most." The Prime Minister can expect continuing help from India in money and technicians because Nepal, on the border of Tibet, is a strategic mountain barrier to Red Chinese expansion. The U.S. is supporting road-building projects, developing civil aviation, and setting up a radio communication net to bring Katmandu into verbal contact with...
...orals ("Monsieur, what was the color of pigs in Homer's day?"), remembered his anti-French error of telling his examiners that brainy men complement each other ("No, Monsieur. When intelligences are united, they subtract from each other"). Warmly supporting Guitton in defense of the oral. Author Paul ( The Innocent Tenant) Guth wrote: "In a world more and more dedicated to the quantitative, the oral is the unique safeguard of the qualitative." It allows boys and girls "to show their true nature . . . the whole personality ... A man who does not know how to talk today is devalued...