Word: general
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What will the first Mercury Astronaut feel, see and hear? Last week an eloquent forecast came from Navy Captain Norman Barr, veteran flight surgeon and pilot (12,500 hours), who helped set the physical requirements for the space-bound seven. Said Dr. Barr to the American Academy of General Practice in San Francisco...
...convinced, and in this I reflect the steadfast purpose of the President and the wholehearted support of the Secretary of State and the Attorney General," wrote the Vice President of the U.S., "that the time has now come to take the initiative in the direction of establishment of the world rule...
Last week, back from a tour of Europe (a must for potential candidates), where he visited NATO's General Lauris Norstad and West Berlin's Mayor Willy Brandt ("great fella"), handsome Stu Symington held a news conference. Was he a candidate for the Democratic nomination? Reply: "I appreciate the thought. But at this time I have no organization and no plans." But would he refuse a draft? Reply: "I'm in the business of politics. Of course I wouldn't refuse. I wouldn't refuse anything like that." Stu Symington had avoided saying anything divisive...
...crisis not as a struggle between Russia and the West, but between a peace-loving Macmillan and an obstinate Eisenhower (whom former Punch Editor Malcolm Muggeridge last week described as the "poor, meandering old President") and inflexible old men in France and Germany. Fortnight ago, when NATO's General Lauris Norstad temperately pointed out the dangers to the West of military disengagement in Central Europe, London's pro-Labor Daily Mirror exploded with a frontpage blast headlined MEDDLING AMERICAN GENERALS. Bawled the Mirror: "Marshal Stalin (who was not even a real general) died in 1953. Now there...
...walls. The corpses of hundreds of slain Lhasans lay in the streets and parks of the city, from the gutted medical college on Chakpori hill to the barricaded main avenue of Barkhor. Rifle fire and the hammer of machine guns rattled the windows of the Indian consulate general, whose single radio transmitter is the only communication link with the free world. And Red Chinese columns and planes crisscrossed the barren plateaus and narrow valleys of Tibet in search of the missing Dalai Lama...