Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...OPINION Corruption of the Mind Still cherished by many Westerners is the hope that one fine day a summit meeting will melt Russian suspicions of the West and bring about a lasting thaw in the cold war. Last week Russian Expert George Frost Kennan, 53, onetime U.S. Ambassador to Moscow, longtime favorite foreign-relations philosopher of U.S. liberal Democrats, did a thorough demolition job on the summit-meeting idea. Currently a visiting professor at Oxford University, Kennan argued in a speech broadcast by the BBC that summit meetings with the Russians are doomed in advance to failure. Reason: Soviet leaders...
...ATOM The Oppenheimer Case Swirling last week amid the currents of opinion stirred up by Russia's Sputniks was a demand for a re-examination of the decade's most sensational security-risk case: the Atomic Energy Commission's 1954 decision revoking the security clearance of Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, wartime director of the Los Alamos A-bomb laboratory and later chairman of the AEC's General Advisory Committee. A three-man special board headed by the University of North Carolina's President Gordon Gray (now Defense Mobilization Director) concluded in 1954 that Oppenheimer...
Another objection was Dulles' stipulation that the U.S. (in view of the atom-denying McMahon Act) will keep the nuclear warheads "in the custody" of the U.S. Said the neutralist Le Monde, speaking for a considerable body of French opinion: "France cannot shelter on her soil arms of massive destruction which expose her to reprisals unless she is associated in the decision to use them...
...airlines' biggest problems is the virtual impossibility of getting equity capital when profits are falling. Warned Benjamin Clark, general partner of Manhattan's White, Weld & Co.: Unless the air-transport industry can earn the favorable opinion of investors, and in particular of the professional investor, "either the industry's progress will stop or the taxpayers will have to subsidize it again." So far are investors from that state of mind right now, said Clark, that "we can visualize the industry, even with reasonably good luck, being able to generate only $227 million of the $610 million still...
While Goldwyn continued to look for Negro stars, Roy Wilkins, executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, acknowledged that "among Negro Americans there is a division of opinion as to the value of this play." But, said Wilkins, "the N.A.A.C.P. has taken no position on Porgy and Bess...