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...Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard blamed De Gaulle for a "black day," declaring that "the Common Market is now only a mechanism and no longer a living thing." Alfred Müller-Armack, West Germany's chief negotiator at Brussels, quit his job in disgust. Jean Monnet, the dynamic optimist who is the father of the Common Market, lamented that "there now looms disunion with its inherent dangers.'' Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan told his country on TV: "What happened at Brussels was bad. Bad for us, bad for Europe, bad for the whole world...
Spry and witty, Brown remained "an incorrigible optimist," whose concern for cold war crises never destroyed his belief that the power of righteousness is greater than the power of evil. "Despite our inner conflicts and tensions and our outerspace contests," he would say, "we're going to survive. We'll not only survive; we will prevail...
...place is taken by the self-discipline of a responsible society, the whole basis of a free economy-and therefore of a free society-is in jeopardy." The nation may react to such Maudling talk as it did to Selwynism, but, grins the new Chancellor, "I'm an optimist...
...believe that "sex has anything to do with humanity at this level." At 51, bearded, scholarly William Golding claims to have been writing for 44 years-through childhood in Cornwall, Oxford, wartime duty as a naval officer, and 19 years as a schoolmaster. Golding claims to be an optimist-emotionally if not intellectually-and has a humor that belies the gloomy themes of his allegories...
...himself, Rockefeller is a congenital optimist. He believes that, with effort, any odds can be overcome. "Anybody who hopes for the 1968 nomination," says a Rockefeller aide, "has to carry the burden in 1964, futile as it may seem to be." But futility is not in the Rockefeller vocabulary. Are his sights really set on 1968? "No, no," says Rockefeller, smiling broadly...