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Essentially an optimist, Eisenhower thought at first that Russia and the West had a good chance of working out their postwar differences, tried hard in Berlin to make a go of it with Marshal Zhukov. The Marshal, he found, was merely a high-ranking Kremlin mouthpiece without authority, though Stalin himself said to Ike: "There is no sense in sending a delegate somewhere if he is merely to be an errand boy. He must have authority to act." Ike soon learned that the East-West ideological differences were irreconcilable, that adequate military defense would provide the only real security...
Contrary to popular opinion, the plague has not been stamped out. But Dr. Robert H. Pollitzer, 63, who has spent 27 years fighting plague in China, is quite cheerful about getting it under control, even there. Said he: "There are optimists and pessimists in this plague-fighting business. I am an optimist ... It is not any more a question of looking for effective methods. It's just a case of applying them." Dr. Pollitzer, who works for U.N.'s World Health Organization, last week started work in the University of California's George Williams Hooper Foundation...
...easily passed Papa. Jockey R. L. Baird gave Papa a breather around the bend. Most of the fans, and Citation himself, seemed to figure that he had Papa licked. But in the stretch, Baird sent Papa up again. Said Baird later: "For a couple of seconds, I was an optimist. We got up within a half length of him. But when we came alongside, he took one look and ran away from us. He's just too much horse...
...Egyptians were hard-pressed south of Tel Aviv, and that the Jews had not been able to open the road to Jerusalem. Mediator Bernadotte might be helped by the fact that both Jews and Arabs seemed reluctant to throw their full strength into the fight. "Being by nature an optimist," said Bernadotte, "I haven't become a pessimist...
...Optimist: Businessmen are pessimists only when they are thinking of the Stock Exchange. Ask them about their own business, and most of them will talk in terms of cautious optimism...