Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...code of congressional politics that Harry Truman brought down the hill from the Senate-had erased the petty stains of mink coats, freezers and influence peddling. This week Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams, a tough, rock-like symbol and chief enforcement officer of the code, stood before it for judgment...
Just Friends. Adams had gone off to New Hampshire to deliver a baccalaureate address to Holderness school (for boys) on "the questions the Bible tells us shall be asked on Judgment Day" when the House investigators introduced into evidence photostatic copies of Adams' paid-up hotel bills. He secretly slipped into Boston for a three-hour lunch with Old Friend Bernie Goldfine. Then he flew back to Washington to draw up a 766-word statement to the House subcommittee, sent it to the President, who, Press Secretary Hagerty announced, "thinks that these are the full facts...
...great blocs of nations the division between what we roughly call the free world and the Communist world. There are some who feel that this struggle is necessarily fated to end either in war or by the triumph of revolutionary Communism. I believe that to be too pessimistic a judgment. Of course the free world must be firm as well as fair. We must not lower our guard. We must not fall victim to propaganda or to mere exhaustion. Nor must we delude ourselves by wishful thinking. We must not conceive of peace as a state of inactivity, something that...
...school was teaching his singers patriotic songs of the United States, England, France, and Russia--the last a song written nine years before by a Soviet composer. They accused him of being unpatrioic, and it took an investigation by the school board and an admission of "an error in judgment" by the director to clear the air once more...
...caves of outer space? For one thing, despite his physical and emotional inadequacies, he is still a space-saving, weight-saving gadget compared with any electronic brain yet constructed. A cynical explanation favored in cybernetic circles: "Nowhere else can you obtain a self-maintaining computer with built-in judgment, which can be mass-produced by unskilled labor -and by people who like their work so well." To Dr. Simons, first man to have so long and clear a view of untwinkling stars, it is a matter of man's destiny: "This is one of the greatest challenges that...