Word: hoping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...news conferences to refute "lying" stories, was powerless to defend himself. "Have you read the book?" asked Mazo. When Warren admitted that he had only read excerpts in Look magazine and some book reviews, it was Polish-born, South Carolina-raised Earl Mazo who blew up. Said he: "I hope to God for the sake of the country that your decisions are based on much more full and accurate evidence than judgments on a book you haven't even read." Newsmen who had overheard the conversation at first agreed that they would consider it off the record...
...winter). "We recognize that France faces a problem of greater difficulty and complexity than that which burdens any other free nation," he said. "We welcomed the Constantine Plan* as a major step forward. We welcomed your affirmation of the reality of an 'Algerian personality,' " adding, "We sincerely hope that an equitable and liberal solution-one that will maintain French ties to Algeria -will be found. In his efforts to achieve this solution. President de Gaulle has the wholehearted support...
...glass-topped metal bathtub containing 150 gal. of liquid hydrogen. As the antiprotons travel through the liquid, they will make slender, scratchlike trails of hydrogen bubbles. These trails, lasting but a fraction of a second, are the reason for the massive. $2,000,000 instrument; scientists around the world hope that photographs of the trails will reveal the innermost secrets of matter...
...manufacturing workers, whose own wage scale is based on that of the printers, joined the strike. With only a few days' reserve supply of ink, the national dailies were immediately forced to cut their size. At week's end they pooled their ink reserves, but could hardly hope to keep publishing much longer. And with publishers and strikers reluctant to compromise ("This," said an official of the Ministry of Labor, "is the most intractable strike we have known in years"), England faced the melancholy prospect of a near-complete newspaper blackout, with only two daily papers likely...
Kindly, fatherly Pope John XXIII issued his first encyclical last week, and it proved to be a fatherly message of warning, hope and encouragement. Ad Petri Cathedram (To the Chair of Peter), the circular letter's opening words by which it will be known, is neither a trail-blazing social document (like Leo XIII's Rerum Novarum in 1891) nor a detailed doctrinal exposition (like Pius XII's Humani Generis in 1950). It is instead notable for the familiarity of its style, the range of its concern and the warmth with which it faces its subject...