Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moderate Voice. When the Anglo-French attack on Suez came, Saud, in the opinion of U.S. observers, did what he had to do-and no more. He closed down the pipeline to Bahrein (a British protectorate), banned sale of Saudi oil to British or French buyers, broke relations with Britain and France, allowed Nasser to use Saudi airfields to fly his Russian jets and bombers to safety, and offered Saudi troops (Nasser declined them as unneeded). In return, he had one urgent favor to ask of Nasser: that he ask the Syrians not to blow up Tapline, the pipeline that...
...court pondered the evidence, calling up specialist after specialist to give his expert opinion, Dr. Adams smiled blandly, took his notes and occasionally chuckled at the mispronunciation of some difficult medical terms. In the palm-strewn lobbies of Eastbourne's hotels, aged widows gossiped and fingered their heavily insured necklaces, and retired colonels humphed over the bad news from Egypt. But topic No. i was something none of their newspapers could say under Britain's strict libel and contempt laws: that the doctor may also have quickened the deaths of a dozen or more other Eastbourne patients...
...Although opinion on this side of the river is divided on whether the neatly-spaced quadrangles on the other side form the Temple of God or the Temple of Mammon, there is general unanimity on one point: that the Harvard School of Business Administration is probably the most important and the most effective training-ground in the country for the future leaders of our economic system. But to say, in effect, that the Business School is the best in the country is not necessarily to say that it is good enough. American business in the next 25 years is going...
...Alte will do all right," he said. "But what will come after? We must call to our U.S. friends: 'Stop seeing in Konrad Adenauer the only reliable democrat in Germany.' " Last week he sang his new song to the Free Democrats at Stuttgart: "A difference of opinion, be it ever so pronounced, must end. NATO is the steel rail that binds Germany to the military might of the U.S." But he also urged Germany to raise only a volunteer army, and called on the party to keep working for talks with the Russians...
...dissenting unions will produce scientists of their own when the hearings resume in several weeks. After that, AEC's five commissioners, most of whom favor private power, will decide whether to approve the reactor. Although their final decision will not be determined by public opinion, AEC will weigh the feelings of Monroe's 25,000 residents. Said Vice Mayor Ruby G. Clime last week: "The citizens of Monroe are not frightened one bit. The great majority of the local people are thrilled. It will put Monroe definitely...