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...General Assembly decided, 40 to 6, that the U.S. atomic control plan (Baruch plan) was the one the world needed. It officially hoped (also 40 to 6) that the Big Five and Canada would find in it a basis for agreement. Said Russia's Andrei Vishinsky: "We can immediately give a reply-there is no such basis...
...himself, wearing the hood of an honorary LL.D. (trimmed in purple, for Law, and lined in blue & white, for Columbia). A ripple of applause followed Eisenhower down the aisle; he grinned at old friends like General Omar Bradley and Admiral Thomas C. Kincaid, and saluted Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch...
...should be that of a showdown poker game, not of a court of inquiry: You turn a card, and I will turn a card, rather than upsetting the table and calling you a fraud. While the Russians propose control of atomic energy, our response cannot only be that Bernard Baruch already has offered a fine plan which you nasty people ruined, so that you are clearly not making your offer in good faith now. If this is the adamant attitude of the West, the Russians can counter legitimately (from a point of pure logic) that the capitalist nations can never...
...blotter entries O'Grady especially likes to recall. When Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch lost $2,000 near the Belmont gate, before he had a chance to lose it at the windows, O'Grady recovered the roll with the rubber bands still intact. Another time, a temporarily well-to-do businessman suddenly decided to "invest" his savings of $80,000 in one glorious day at the races. Two special agents who spotted the man peeling off thousand-dollar bills at a pari-mutuel window put a purposely obvious "tail" on him, so that every footpad within miles would keep...
...visit to friends in San Francisco, Bernard Baruch found a park bench to sit on, newsmen to talk to, and a thought for the week: "The people of the United States had better do some tall thinking. Too many people are talking...