Word: foresights
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...sincere congratulations to Senator Thomas Dodd. It is gratifying to realize that there is one strong voice remaining with courage and foresight behind...
...system to detect Soviet atomic tests, he sidestepped them by taking his case to friends at the Pentagon. When the detection system, set up at Strauss's urging, picked up radiation from the Soviet Union's first atomic explosion in September 1949, Strauss, proven man of scientific foresight, set off another minority campaign: the fight to get an H-bomb program started against the combined opposition of his fellow commissioners and the scientists of the AEC's General Advisory Committee, chaired by prestigious Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer...
...House of Commons were out of town. To the royal family, "Dickie" Mountbatten is a favorite blood relation (he is both Elizabeth's cousin and Philip's uncle); to Britain's political leaders, who keep advancing him, he is a diplomat-sailor with charm, foresight and savvy; to his fellow officers he is courageous and capable; to the newspaper-reading public he is part hero, part legend, handsome and dashing. But to some diehard Tories, Mountbatten is a bad word...
...Recently I reread your March 24 cover story, "The Recession-How Deep? How Long?", and you deserve an orchid for 20/20 foresight. The stockmarket's action in the last seven months, rising almost 100 points on the Dow-Jones industrial average, has justified your cover captioned "Wall Street Bull: Spring, 1958." Forecasted pickups have likewise occurred in housing, steel and autos-to mention just a few indices -and you are to be commended for your courage in publishing this article when the recession was close to rock bottom. JULIUS M. WESTHEIMER Baltimore...
...feel, and so does the Society, that Harvard's decision to withdraw from the National Student Association has been done without the least bit of foresight. America has very few friends, and at the moment it is improper to break away from the friends that...