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...Answer: the Soviet Union. What country sent the first Sputniks into the cosmos? Answer: those were Socialist Sputniks. Who wants to overtake whom in science? Answer: the U.S. would like to overtake the Soviet Union." Then, looking down at LIFE photographer Lisa Larsen, he added: "But don't misunderstand me. There is an American girl standing in front. There may be other Americans, too. I don't want to hurt anyone's national feelings. Americans, British-all are good people...
...Hoffman Beverage Company feels compelled to make this announcement. It's simply this. All Hoffman flavors have that happy taste except sarsaparilla. We might as well come right out with it. We haven't quite hit that happy, carefree note in sarsaparilla. Now please don't misunderstand us. Our Hoffman sarsaparilla is absolutely dependable. It's trustworthy. It's loyal. But it just isn't what"we call happy. You take Hoffman orange. It's absolutely rollicking. Our lemon is almost giggly . . . We are sorry about Hoffman sarsaparilla...
...probably still called anti-American in Japan, but they misunderstand me," Tsuru Shigeto '35, visiting lecturer in Economics, declared as he attempted to clarify his political position following his appearance before Senate investigators last month...
...educate his child in the atmosphere of a Catholic school is convinced that an integral education-a complete education-is possible only where a child receives thorough and systematic training in man's obligations to know, love and serve God his Creator and Redeemer. Protestants very often misunderstand the parochial school. Too often they repeat the slogan about the Catholic school being a 'divisive' influence on American society...
...General Alfred M. Gruenther, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, smiled a bony smile. One big thing still needed to be said publicly to back up the week's U.S. diplomacy. Now Gruenther, with specific White House authority, set about saying it in terms that no Communist geopolitician could misunderstand. "The main purpose and the guiding principle that we always have," he began, "is to deter a war from taking place . . . Probably the outstanding element in the deterrent as of today, the 13th of November, 1956, is the fact that we have air units with an overwhelming capacity which could...