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...project, gave orders to get ready for a second shot before a proud succinct message was sent to President Eisenhower in Newport: "Polaris, from out of the deep to target. Perfect." In a second message to Admiral Arleigh Burke, chief of naval operations, Red Raborn let go all the pent-up exuberation of a classic achievement: "This new star of peace hoisted a trail of missile smoke from salt water to space as a signal of a bright new addition to seapower, a new strategic use of the world's oceans which will be felt around the world...
...economic specialist, Edwin L. Dale Jr., 36, now in the paper's Paris bureau after five years in Washington, chided his fellow intellectuals for their consistently conformist view of free world, and especially American, "failure." James Reston, the Times's Washington bureau chief, could contain his pent-up disdain for President Eisenhower no longer and dashed off a classic column of political satire. And Syndicated Columnist Joseph Alsop donned sackcloth in public and did penance for the venial sin of optimism...
...Khrushchev slammed shut the door in his rage. Three hours later, Ike walked from the room. "For the first time since I gave up smoking," he said, "I wanted a cigarette just to give myself something to do." In the privacy of the U.S. embassy later, Ike loosed his pent-up temper, swore vigorously, muttered over and over again, "I'm just...
Blough's words were a pointed comment on the gloomy state of mind of many U.S. businessmen, though of course Steel's first quarter reflected pent-up buyer demands after 1959's nearly 17-week-long strike. But for many other companies, business had never been so good - or at least, so big. With first-quarter reports from some 400 of the biggest U.S. companies in by last week, earnings on the average were up 6%. Seldom had there been so much discontent with good news, or such readiness to emphasize the weak spots...
...papers used women who would be sent out on education stories when they weren't busy on society. A lot of stuff was passed off as education reporting when it really wasn't. I mean the pictures of college girls in tight sweaters and football helmets." A pent-up postwar demand for new schools and new teachers generated a new public interest in public education-and forced newspapers to re-examine a neglected corner of the local scene. Inevitably, the hack writers began to disappear, and today's education reporter bears little resemblance to his predecessor...