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Loyal Tribute. What of Wilson's own defects? Winston Churchill once wrote: "If Mr. Wilson had been either simply an idealist or a caucus politician, he might have succeeded. His attempt to run the two in double harness was the cause of his undoing." And Georges Clemenceau, the old...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: From the Horse's Mouth | 4/28/1958 | See Source »

In the tense hours before the first U.S. satellite took off for outer space, no missile-beat newsman was under greater strain than Major General Donald N. (for Norton) Yates, U.S.A.F., handsome, gregarious commander of Florida's Air Force Missile Test Center. For it was Meteorologist Yates, 48, who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Canaveral Revisited | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

Out of the Barn. Until the 1930s, the stock figure of the veterinarian in U.S. life was the horse doctor who operated, with a heavy harness to restrain his unanesthetized victim, in any handy barn. He would handle anything from a Chihuahua to a Percheron, prescribed more worm medicine than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Veterinary Revolution | 2/3/1958 | See Source »

Libby will bring to Capitol Hill a longtime friendship with the racketeers who lurk in the background of the West Side's ward politics. A pal of the late underworld overlord Al Capone, Libonati is still on chummy terms with former Capone henchmen such as Tony Accardo and Paul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ILLINOIS: Meet Your Congressman | 11/25/1957 | See Source »

U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge warned the United Nations "we must not miss this chance" to harness for peace outer space missiles "which can blow us to bits."

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Russian U.N. Delegation Declines U.S. Proposals of Missile Control; European Press Eases Up on U.S. | 10/11/1957 | See Source »

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