Word: expression
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Softness" Toward Communism: "We do not always choose to express our opposition to Communism in the military context. That would be much too simple an answer, but we see the challenge clearly and the need to meet it all along the line. So do not be misled into thinking us soft. Some of our enemies made that mistake. Napoleon called us a nation of shopkeepers. The memorial to him in London is a railway station called Waterloo. Shopkeepers we may be, but neither our principles nor our alliances are for sale...
...Weil, I would suggest that he try, somehow, to sense the spirit that led to Sert's creation, to look at the building with clear eyes as a man living in this time and this place, and to imagine how he might try to express the vitality, life, and peculiar spirit of our community. Wouldn't the vision come closer to Sert's product? The less creative alternate is to rant and rage endlessly, in darkness and without understanding. Stanley Milgram Assistant Professor of Social Psychology
...question, was far from reassuring. The report concedes that Profumo "disclosed a character defect which pointed to his being a security risk," adding that Christine might well have tried to "blackmail him or bring pressure on him to disclose secret information." Indeed, suggests Denning, Ivanov may have been under express orders from the Soviet government to blow up a scandal involving Profumo, in the hope that it would weaken U.S. trust in the government-and "he succeeded only too well...
...Limbo. When high NASA men are asked whether they will meet their 1970 date with the moon, they still express perfect confidence-provided, of course, that Congress continues to give them all the money they need. Their abiding fear is that funds will be cut off as soon as the program ceases to be a race against the Russians. Even before the President made his offer to the Russians, even before NASA spokesmen began to echo the boss and say that cooperation is a good thing, Congress had begun to pare NASA's budget request ($5.7 billion for fiscal...
Died. Arthur Christiansen, 59, longtime (1933-57) editor of the London Daily Express (circ. 4,300,000), largest Beaverbrook daily, who took command at 29, echoed the Beaver's neo-Victorian politics ("His the policy, mine the paper"), doubled circulation with splashy makeup and exhortations to "Keep the COMMON TOUCH"; of a heart attack; in Norwich, England...