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...answers and I usually do," he once told a press conference. But he is widely respected, his intimate friends find him charming and witty, and his intellectual authority as the party's guiding brain is unchallenged. He has another important asset, which often seems to go with forethought: luck. Said one observer: "Butler gives the impression that the stars are on his side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The New Tory | 4/5/1954 | See Source »

...will team up in the field, sit together in mess halls, bunk in the same barracks space. Theoretically, they will be transferred overseas as a unit and will not be separated on troopships. The regulation, however, contains the phrase "wherever possible" at regular intervals, a piece of forethought regarded cynically by some soldiers but with a certain sense of relief by others-since Regulation 600-150-10. unlike the civil laws relating to marriage, contains no provision at all for divorce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Brave New Army Team | 7/13/1953 | See Source »

...Soviet Russia and by the fundamental schism which has opened between communism and the rest of mankind. But we must not despair. We must persevere, and if the gulf continues to widen, we must make sure that the cause of freedom is defended by all the resources of combined forethought and superior science. Here lies the best hope of averting a third world struggle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Mid-century Appraisal: THE STATESMAN | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

Calling on the rest of mankind "not to despair," he said that "we must make sure that the cause of Freedom is defended by all the resources of combined forethought and superior science," and pointed to the fact that "the doctrine of self-determinism was not the remedy for Europe, which needs above all things, unity and larger groupings...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Churchill Warns of Russian Plans in MIT Talk | 4/1/1949 | See Source »

Even blase Hollywood was impressed by the invitations from Houston. They were in gold, on white doeskin. For this week's opening of his $21 million Shamrock hotel, hustling Oilman Glenn McCarthy had requested the company of a trainload of movie and radio stars. He had the forethought to rent a Santa Fe Super Chief to carry his guests free to Texas and back. As a St. Patrick's Day touch, McCarthy had ordered 2,500 shamrocks flown over from Eire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOTELS: Luck of the Irish | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

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