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...Force had become the first line of defense. First there was some missionary work to do in his own backyard. If the other services were denying the Air Force its rightful responsibility, maybe it was because it too often seemed irresponsible. The prewar airman was bold and brave, and, for his time, precise, but he had managed to sell the public on the idea that he was a woman-chasing, whisky-drinking revolutionary who strapped his airplane to his backside and amused himself, on taxpayers' gasoline, from one end of the country to the other. Even in World...
...first six months have made 49-year-old Chancellor of the Exchequer Richard Austen ("Rab") Butler, the "young Turk of Toryism," the fastest-growing man in the Conservative Party. His budget, a brave one, shapes up already as the outstanding success of the half-year. The drain on Britain's lifeblood, the dollar reserves, was slowed and the gap between dollars spent and dollars earned was closed last month to $71 million, chiefly as a result of Butler measures...
...Kefauver's brave words, the thought of one favorite son in particular hung heavy over his head. Illinois' Governor Adlai Stevenson (who handily won renomination last week) was still trying to make up his mind as to whether he would be a presidential candidate. But he had promised to "clarify" his position some time this week. If the clarification meant yes, Stevenson would become the first real roadblock between Kefauver and the Democratic nomination...
What, UNESCO wanted to know, do the people of eight countries think of other nations and of themselves? Pollsters, armed with pencils and a wide range of adjectives (samples: hardworking, conceited, cruel, brave, peace-loving), set out in the U.S., England, France, Italy, West Germany, Australia, Holland, Norway...
...home, each nation thought well of itself. Americans saw themselves as "peace-loving" (82%), "generous" (76%), "intelligent" (72%). All the others also put peace-loving high on their lists, except the Germans and Italians, who listed these outstanding virtues: "hard-working," "intelligent" and "brave." The most self-satisfied people were the English. Though they rated the Americans as conceited, they led the list in the number of virtues (21) they claimed for themselves for each fault they conceded they had. For Americans and Australians, the ratio was 13 to 1. Most modest: the Italians...