Word: mankinde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pour a little soothing oil on American heartburn over the failure of your Sputnik? Look around the free world and take stock of what your first Sputnik-called by some Marshall Aid-did for mankind, and take heart. A nation capable of such deeds can laugh off its first failures...
...free world need not be let down. Said Dulles: "There are, I know, many who feel that the cold war could be ended and the need for sacrificial effort removed by a stroke of a pen at the summit. That is the kind of illusion that has plagued mankind for a long time...
...First Phase. Moving on to the climax of his week of new leadership, the President dramatically put to the U.S.S.R. what he called "a proposal to solve what I consider to be the most important problem which faces the world today." The problem: mankind's first steps into space. Said the President: "I propose that we agree that outer space should be used only for peaceful purposes. We face a decisive moment in history in relation to this matter. Both the Soviet Union and the U.S. are now using outer space for the testing of missiles designed for military...
...have it within our power to eradicate from the face of the earth that age-old scourge of mankind: malaria." So said President Eisenhower last week in his State of the Union speech (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). By latest estimates, two-fifths of the world's 2.6 billion people are subject to the disease; each year 200 million suffer from malaria, and 2,000,000 to 2,500,000 die of it. In the 60 years since the discovery that the disease is transmitted by mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles, men of medicine have had periodic fevers of hope about...
Sixpence per Line. With intimates, Thackeray's conversation was "decidedly loose" (lost forever, presumably, is the remainder of his limerick about "...the Countess Guiccioli Who slept with Lord Byron habitually"). He enjoyed going to pubs, or, as one enemy described it:"[He] not infrequently condescends to wither mankind through his spectacles from one of the marble tables." His love of bad puns was notorious ("A good one is not worth listening to"). Said a friend: "I recollect him now, wiping his brow after trying vainly to help the leg of a tough fowl, and saying he was 'heaving...