Word: evens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...call on Stevenson and Wisconsin's Democratic Governor Gaylord Nelson at the executive mansion, Publisher William Evjue of the Madison Capital Times wrote an endorsement of a Stevenson-Kennedy ticket. And when a reporter told Stevenson that a Wisconsin poll gave him 30% of the Democratic vote without even trying, Stevenson listened in rapt attention. Momentarily dropping his faraway look, he said: "Will you please find [Administrative Secretary] Bill Blair and tell him about that? He keeps track of that sort of thing...
Massachusetts' John F. Kennedy: "The Eager John, a very glamorous missile. There are those who contend that there is nothing to surpass the sheer beauty of the Eager John, poised on the launching pad in profile against a sunrise shining upon clouds of Gallup polls. The picture becomes even more splendid when the Eager John is accompanied by its graceful satellite missile, the Joyful Jacqueline. The Eager John has a tendency to yaw between North and South, which appears at times to check its forward motion. No expense is being spared, however, in correcting these faults, and the familiar...
...mere manned weapon. At its Mach 3 speeds and ultra-high altitudes, it makes an inexpensive, i.e., retrievable, launching platform for earth satellites: it could give the space-probing Xi$ a flashing running start, or fire a 9,500-lb. payload into a 300-mile orbit, or even substitute as a first-stage launching vehicle for the man-carrying Mercury capsule. Even beyond its military capabilities, the Valkyrie could well become the answer for commercial-transport operators, who already visualize Mach 3 passenger service in the future...
Nudge from Washington. No less important, De Gaulle had many a Foreign Office in his corner. From the U.S., Secretary of State Christian Herter gave the rebels a nudge with his statement that De Gaulle's "far-reaching declaration" promised "a just and peaceful solution for Algeria." Even Morocco's King Mohammed V and Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba, long among the rebels' strongest supporters, were urging the F.L.N. to give De Gaulle "a constructive answer." Glumly, F.L.N. leaders faced the fact that the resolution condemning French policy in Algeria, which they had confidently expected...
...certainly forfeit most of the international sympathy they had won for their cause; but if they accepted all of De Gaulle's terms, including his refusal to recognize the F.L.N. as spokesman for all Algerians, they would risk loss of their leadership of the Algerian independence movement, perhaps even the defection of their military forces within Algeria...