Word: hardheadedness
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But the U.S. has a more hardheaded proposal. In the last war, an estimated 120,000 U.S. troops were pinned down guarding hemisphere bases. This time, the U.S. proposed that the latino republics supply the guards. To get this help, the U.S. was dangling the prospect of $80 million in...
Last week the Israeli government decided to switch from charity to hardheaded finance. It filed a registration statement with SEC to sell a $500 million issue of "independence bonds,"* the largest foreign bond issue ever floated in the U.S. It was the start of a three-year plan of Prime...
These generals and their opposite numbers back on Formosa think hungrily in terms of U.S. aid. But they have become hardheaded enough to realize that U.S. aid cannot be given on the old basis. One high Chinese Nationalist official put it this way:
Into this atmosphere of Democratic torpor and Republican cockiness, Harry Truman insinuated his legislative program. On the hardheaded advice of his staff he abandoned plans to appear personally before a joint session. But he sent word by his leaders that he wanted: statehood for Alaska and Hawaii; $14 billion more...
Three years ago Norbert Wiener, professor of mathematics at M.I.T., was a "longhair" who had coined the word "cybernetics"* to wrap up the many-sided science of communication and control devices. Now Wiener's book, Cybernetics (TIME, Dec. 27, 1948), is a classic, and Wiener is a prophet who...