Word: hells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harry S. Truman was plunking his give-'em-hell keyboard again last week-only this time he was putting national defense to political ragtime. In one of his jazziest now-when-I-was-President moods, Harry recalled how he had seen the U.S. long-range missile program lagging, called in Chrysler Corp. President K. T. Keller, made him a missiles czar, with "instructions to knock heads together whenever it was necessary to break through bottlenecks." After that, claimed Truman, the missile program made "encouraging progress"-until, of course, the Eisenhower Administration ruined...
...dismal for Democrats. Just before Knight's move, Democratic Attorney General Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown had announced his candidacy for governor, betting heavily on the fact of a Republican-splitting Knight-Knowland contest. His bet lost, Brown complained of a "cynical deal engineered by a reactionary darling hell-bent for the White House." But Pat Brown, described by a friend as "a great big Teddy bear who doesn't want to grow claws," has never shown any liking for a knockdown drag-out fight. And that was the only kind of fight anyone could expect from Republican Bill...
Premier Menderes dismissed the outcries of the opposition, insisted that the increased size of the opposition "won't slow us down at all" in his hell-bent modernization of Turkey's creaky economy. "Turkey cannot remain underdeveloped," he declared. "She must have a strong national army, and we must be able to maintain it within our own resources. We Turks are surrounded by dangers. It means nothing less than our national existence...
Short Cut to Hell (Paramount). He, mechanically: "I'm not a person. I'm a gun . . . It's my trade. My profession. I shoot people." She, tenderly: "There's so much more to you than you'll admit. 1 know it ... Your hands . . . they could be the hands of an artist...
Other authors in the issue are disturbed, but again not disturbing. Reinhold Niebuhr shows the concern of religion for the failure of our enlightenment to solve the eternal problems, but aside from a line on "our gadgetfilled paradise suspended in a hell of international insecurity" his concern is academic. Samuel Eliot Morison does prove that things have changed; "young William (Hickling Prescott) had gone through Harvard College gaily and easily, but lost an eye as a result of a brawl in college commons." Morison, however, devotes a very interesting article to the unknown historian and his claims for recognition...