Word: hardheadedness
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INTO the post-Sputnik atmosphere of foggy fear and cautious reassurance came this week a careful, levelheaded assessment of the dangers that face the U.S. and some hardheaded suggestions as to what ought to be done about them. This was the Rockefeller Report, drawn by a panel of 19 citizens...
From this aggressive faith in the rewards of enterprise, hardheaded Newsboy Gannett (accent on the nett) never wavered. It led him, frustratingly, into politics, notably as the highly unsuccessful "businessman's candidate" for the Republican presidential nomination in 1940, into propaganda as angel and pamphleteer for the National Committee...
Force for Space. Beyond that, Tommy White must ever look ahead with hard-headed realism to the day when the U.S.'s force-to-be must move operationally into space. "The Air Force," he says, "has been pioneering for many years to project man into space. We airmen see...
Unlike the M.D. or the LL.B., the Ph.D. does not lead to any one profession, and therefore the time needed to earn it varies from school to school and field to field. "Generally, the Ph.D. takes at least four years to get; more often it takes six or seven, and...
Last week President René Coty went back to the man he had tried first-durable, hardheaded Socialist Guy Mollet, whose government fell on the issue of high taxes only last May after having lasted longer than any other since the war. Mollet offered a grim, emergency program of raised...