Word: pleased
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Still, the Army kept working on Jupiter, with Medaris and Von Braun shuttling between Huntsville and Washington, begging and borrowing Army research and development funds to keep going. Said Medaris: "We bend every effort we can to make up for whatever handicaps or checks have been thrown into it, and...
In Ankara's new Parliament building, U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles listened impassively. In theory, Dulles was present only as an "observer," because the U.S. is not a member, and to join the Baghdad grouping outright would antagonize Israel and Saudi Arabia. In reality, as the pact...
To the airlines' mayday pleas for a fare boost, the Civil Aeronautics Board last August gave a majestic, bureaucratic answer. It was already conducting something called the General Passenger Fare Investigation, planned for hearings to go leisurely on until 1959. As they droned on, platoons of economists racked up...
But politics-conscious people on Formosa agreed that the political atmosphere was more tense than at any time in years. The legislators showed no signs of backing down in their campaign for more authority, despite Chiang Kai-shek's pleas to avoid rocking the boat. In some quarters there...
Pleas in Private. But for most of his stay in Paris, the President was immersed in the problems of the present. He had already conferred privately with British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. France's Felix Gaillard had called to tell the President that practically every Frenchman is convinced that...