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Wild Wilder. Skin turned out to be, in six full-house performances, the dramatic showpiece of Salute. Salute marked the first invasion of the laggardly U.S. onto a critical cultural battlefield of the cold war. Skin opened after only two hectic rehearsals in its Paris theater. Some 200 sittie-talkies caught a running translation for its French-speaking viewers. In general, Paris critics raved, though a few found it "furiously intellectual'' or "slightly incoherent...
Given firmness and understanding, said the President, there was hope for Geneva. "The people of all the world desire peace . . . [They] do not want to go to the battlefield; they want to live in peace-not a peace that is a mere stilling of the guns but a peace in which they can live happily in tranquillity, in confidence that they can raise their children in a world of which they will be proud. This common desire for peace is ... a terrific force in this world ... to which I believe all political leaders in the world are beginning to respond...
...Munitions of Peace." "We shall work with all others-especially through this great organization, the United Nations -so that peaceful and reasonable negotiations may replace the clash of the battlefield. In this way we can in time make unnecessary the vast armaments that-even when maintained only for security-terrify the world with their devastating potentiality and tax unbearably the creative energies...
Impressed by the danger, Ike stopped complaining about the Secret Service. When the service insisted on closing a tourist observation tower atop Cemetery Ridge on the Gettysburg Battlefield whenever he is at the farm, he made no objection. A marksman, standing on the tower with a high-powered rifle, could shoot anyone on the Eisenhower farm...
...feelings are as dangerous as disease, having read articles like "Emotion Can Give You a Running Nose." He is a pragmatist, a materialist, a "healthy sceptic," a "tough realist" -and Author Whitman warns-he is "as inadequate to our time as a bow-and-arrow on a 20th century battlefield...