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It was into this duel that the President of the U.S. stepped with an intuition about politics in 1954 which both parties could profit by. Dwight Eisenhower believes firmly in party responsibility, but, said he, the times are too perilous for extreme partisanship. Moreover, the people of the U.S. know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: Principles v. Fragments | 2/22/1954 | See Source »

"Even in experimental work, it is the primacy of an imaginative idea or intuition that starts it all off ... The important thing in experimenting is to ask nature the right question and in its most direct form ... It is as if knowledge were playing a game of chess with the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Elegant Experiment | 1/4/1954 | See Source »

Papa Miller began buying stocks, hoping that some day he would have something substantial to leave behind. He bought solely on intuition-shares in Southern Union Gas Co. (he happened to believe in natural gas), Pickering Lumber Corp. and Brink's. Inc. He bought some 12,000 shares of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Papa Pays Off | 12/7/1953 | See Source »

Why, on the other hand, he asks, did Otto Lilienthal, the Wright Brothers, Santos-Dumont, and a hatful of other pioneer airmen?among them, Igor Sikorsky ?come into a wingless world lusting to fly and apparently equipped with some kind of built-in mental equipment which helped them do...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Uncle Igor & the Chinese Top | 11/16/1953 | See Source »

Chester catches sight of his destiny in adolescent flashes of intuition. Standing in a tent show before a penny-dreadful melodrama, he feels the actor's hypnotic hold on the crowd, senses that his words too may one day sway and spellbind. Standing, on another day, atop a rain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Up from Poverty | 11/16/1953 | See Source »

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