Word: motions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cloak for Timidity. The London Times insisted that the South Carolina dud merely proved that the dangers of radiation from such an accident were "practically negligible." In Parliament, 100 Conservative M.P.s submitted a motion rejecting "any proposal to renounce unilaterally the use of nuclear arms while sheltering behind the protection of the American deterrent." Snapped Prime Minister Macmillan: "I can admire those who advocate a pacifist approach to these problems. But I do not respect timidity under the cloak of spiritual feelings...
...Nobel Peace Prize, makes no effort to match the Prime Minister's give-'em-hell speeches. In matter-of-fact tones, he maintains that the recession would have overtaken any government in power, calls for an immediate $400 million tax cut-rather than a slow-motion public-works plan-to pep up the economy...
Seeing The Brothers Karamazov [Feb. 24] strengthens my long-held suspicion that TIME'S motion picture critic should be banished to some desert island reserved for misguided sophisticates...
This year Johnson's showy record-writing has been abetted considerably by the ineptness of Senate Republican leaders and the slow motion at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue. After the uproar over the success of Sputnik, it was Johnson, as chairman of the Senate Preparedness Subcommittee, who grabbed the initiative (and the headlines), set up hearings, heard expert testimony from about 200 of the top men in the Defense Department, the armed services, science and industry. So successful was he in capturing the attention of press and colleagues that he produced his own "State of the Union" message...
...BABY BOOM, read the screamline in Variety. "The teen market ... is due to rise by leaps and bounds starting with 1958 . . . and motion pictures have the potential for a great attendance revival." It was the kind of talk that harried Hollywood likes to hear, and so far 1958 has lived up to expectations...