Word: isn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Senator Russell Long [TiME, Aug. 16] should be saluted by every American taxpayer. Foreign aid has too long been considered a sacred cow opposed only by Communists. When will Congress realize that the free world must stand on its own feet, not ours? Friendship isn't a purchasable commodity. Why shouldn't our policy be: friends to all, Santa Claus to none...
...present Pick is digging out 1,500 tons of ore a month and selling it to the AEC at a clear profit of $32 a ton. Odium soon hopes to step that up to 10,000 tons a month. Said he: "Uranium is the oil of tomorrow, and tomorrow isn't very far away...
...preventive war" against the Communist world. Ike defined preventive war as waging some sort of quick police action to avoid a terrific cataclysm of destruction later. Under present conditions, said Ike, a preventive attack would inevitably result in atomic retaliation, leave cities in ruins, thousands dead or mangled. That isn't preventive war, the President said, that is war, and he would not even listen to anyone who came to talk with him about it. A reporter asked if his objection to preventive war was merely military. The President said that there were all sorts of reasons, moral...
Lewis: always groping for something she isn't capable of attaining, always dissatisfied, always restlessly straining to see what lies just over the horizon, intolerant of her surroundings, yet lacking any clearly defined vision of what she really wants to do or to be." A few years later, Lewis told Breasted just what value he placed upon his own works: "In the future a book of mine will probably always be good for a sale of 50,000-but neither the critics nor the author will be fooled. The best of what I'll ever have produced will...
Vacationing with his father in Alaska, John Fell Stevenson, 18, confided to a newsman that Adlai Stevenson still has no yen to live in the White House. Said young John: "He doesn't want to be President. He isn't campaigning. He is just helping the [Democratic] party pay off the deficit from the last campaign...