Word: needing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time when the world looked to the U.S. for direction in the compounded crises of Berlin, Tibet, Iraq, and at a time of a rising tide of weariness with cold war that might lead the Communists to miscalculate the free world's resolution. He had no need to, and probably would not, follow the precise pattern of Dulles policies; but as long as there was a cold war to fight, he could take a guideline from the London Observer's appraisal of Foster Dulles: "We have come to appreciate how enormously important it is for the man leading...
...phone, got the word from Dulles that he was heading off for Walter Reed Hospital for his hernia operation. "Don't rush back," said Dulles. "If you do, they'll think I'm worse than I am-and if I am that bad, you'll need the rest to handle the work...
...Nice a Guy? The only big reservation about Christian Herter voiced last week by men who know him was a lingering doubt whether he has enough of the toughness of mind and spirit that Dulles had in abundance, and that Dulles' successor will urgently need amid the risks and challenges of the cold war. The adjectives that people who know him apply to Christian Herter are words of praise-gentlemanly, kind, courteous-but they do not necessarily imply the essential qualities needed in a Secretary of State in 1959-60. Nor do Herter's own "watchwords," picked...
...lofty post during the next two years, gentlemanly Christian Herter will need that capacity to be, now and then, tough and hard-and a touch of serendipity may be useful...
...same time as the lower-in-come boy lags behind in the race, the alumni son looms stronger and stronger. Chances are he doesn't need a very large scholarship, if any at all, and he has probably been very well prepared. A study of Ivy League alumni sons made recently points out that 80 to 90 percent of this group goes to prep school. In recent years, the policy has been to give the Harvard son "the benefit of the doubt" in border-line cases. But as this group grows in numbers, decisions will become more difficult...