Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Easy or not, "human beings are going to insist, some day, on taking journeys out into space. The spirit of human adventure cannot be suppressed, no matter what it costs . . . But when we talk about landing a man on the moon or Mars or some other planet and then getting him off again and back home safely, we are talking about a new order of magnitude of difficulty and cost . . . Nothing impossible about it, you understand. It will just take a lot of money and a long time. Whether it is worth it or not depends on our concept...
Writes Editor Markel: "I don't outlaw Dick Tracy or Li'I Abner, but I insist that a newspaper shall print a goodly amount of information. In the long run, [editors] will discover that they cannot compete with TV in the variety field, and therefore that the future lies in the information area. Too many of them have abdicated this function to the news weeklies and to the silver-screen, gold-plated commentators. They had better move quickly to regain their news standing." Other Markel criticisms: ¶ "Talk about freedom of the press and freedom of information...
...vulnerability to nuclear attack, an increasing number of Englishmen are disposed to favor summit talks on almost any terms. The parade of politicians who play on this wistful longing for talks for talk's sake is headed by Labor Party Leader Hugh Gaitskell. The West should not insist on summit talks "supposed to put the final seal on everything," argues Gaitskell; instead, it should be willing to settle for what he calls "the ice-breaking type of conference...
...Britain's Tory government has stood firm in the face of Labor's blasts. Prime Minister Harold Macmillan continues to insist that there would be no point to summit talks without "a hope of definite achievement." Viscount Hailsham, chairman of the Tory Party, was equally unenthusiastic about suspending British H-bomb tests so long as the Russians continue theirs. Said Hailsham: "Within the last week or two, I understand, [the Russians] have exploded devices equal to 3,000,000 tons of high explosives . . . On the assumption that I am right in thinking we are not in front...
Fury stars a horse in its title role, but, insist its makers, the popular NBC daytime children's show is not another western "because it has no Indians and no saloons." What Fury does have sets it prairies apart from other outdoor TV films. Packed with each Saturday morning episode (11 a.m., E.S.T.) is a plain little moral. It may be a homely little philosophical truth or a wholesome primer on civil defense, bicycle safety, wildlife preservation or freedom of the press. Last week Fury's young friends ran into trouble with a predatory cougar because they...