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...Lest I be misunderstood, let me hasten to add that the point of this story is the importance of brainpower-not the place of the poolroom in a young man's success. Dean Wooldridge was the "Big Red" of the brain squad...
Normally such a firm line would have been heard from the host, too. But it is election year for Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, and the opposition Social Democrats have been shrilly demanding that Germany refuse to arm itself with atomic weapons lest it bring atomic devastation on itself. Added to their outcries was the opposition to nuclear weapons expressed by 18 of Germany's most eminent scientists, and by aging Nobel Prizewinner Dr. Albert Schweitzer. Adenauer decided that it was politically wiser to backtrack temporarily, assured the Russians that Germany did not have any atomic weapons and had not asked...
Nikita Khrushchev told the Western powers to keep their hands off the Communist world, particularly East Germany lest it become necessary to "rap your knuckles...
...important trials in American history. I am confident that fair minded people conected with Harvard, whatever their politics, will agree that there is nothing in Dr. Oppenheimer's public record which should bar him from any honor or any appointment which Harvard can confer. I am therefore more concerned lest there be such a reaction to this protest that whatever Dr. Oppenheimer will say in his lectures will be drowned in a tide of sympathy.... Sanford A. Lakoff
...production of Texas oil. On his flanks ranged virtually every important Texan in Washington, all well aware of how bad Texas has looked recently in the eyes of the world. On one side walked House Speaker Sam Rayburn, on the other Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson. Said Speaker Sam, lest anyone mistake Thompson's qualifications: "The general, in my humble opinion, knows more about oil than any man in the world...