Word: gibraltarism
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...Gibraltar. The next day the President himself answered Challenger McCarthy. "I am in full accord with Secretary Dulles," he told newsmen. If the U.S.. he said, "should turn impatiently to coercion of other free nations [it] would be a mark of the imperialist rather than of the leader...
Having scored a direct hit on McCarthy's "foreign policy," Dwight Eisenhower opened fire on the Gibraltar of McCarthy's political arsenal, the suspicion that Communists will continue to hold Government jobs. Said the President: "Fear of Communists' actively undermining our Government will not be an issue in the 1954 elections. Long before then, this Administration "will have made such progress in rooting them out ... that this can no longer be considered a serious menace...
...cocky exaltation of one who can conquer all without ever rising above the commonplace. For Alec Guinness, here cast in the pose of Captain Henry St. James, was a commonplace man--of that you may be assured. He guided the packet Golden Fleece across the Straits of Gibraltar much in the manner of any ferry captain. Yet in a happy moment of inspiration he conceived a plan for deriving the fullest enjoyment out of his most ordinary work...
There is no doubt that St. James' was a clever scheme. The path he plied across the straits and through the narrow streets of Karik brought him a life of double marriage and pleasure. Maud in Gibraltar (pipe, slippers, and dumplings), Nita in Karik (wine, dancing, and midnight swims). He was, as one of his crew noted, a genius. But he was also, and this, too, is duly noted, a saint. If things ended badly, it was not his fault in trying to take too much, but in wanting too little. He wanted only a single full life, and when...
...Canakkale, Turkey, Swimmer Florence Chadwick rounded out a breathless grand slam of four channels in five weeks by swimming the Dardanelles in the round-trip time of less than two hours in the choppy waters. Now the conqueror of the English Channel, the Strait of Gibraltar, the Bosporus and the Dardanelles, Swimmer Chadwick, 33, announced her retirement: "This is a sport for younger people. I think I'll take up golf." ¶ For an estimated $8,000 a year, First Lieut. Arnold Galiffa. 26, onetime West Point quarterback and 1949 All-America, gave up his Army career after three...