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...look on the faces turned toward Eisenhower in 1959 was the future's best portent. In Paris, during his trip, Ike rejected the view of a "dark and dreary future," classified himself as a "born optimist, and I suppose most soldiers are, because no soldier ever won a battle if he went into it pessimistically." He thinks of the future, said Ike, in terms of his grandchildren, and hopefully, someday, great-grandchildren, "and I am very concerned that they get a chance to live a better life than I had." The forces for freedom fired...
...crowd until they managed to place themselves directly in De Gaulle's path. Just as they were about to meet face to face, suave Jacques Chaban-Delmas, responding to advance warnings from Socialists, deftly steered the shortsighted general off in another direction. But it was an unsettling portent. Glumly, the organizers of every public affair that De Gaulle is expected to attend in the next few weeks braced themselves for a rush of unwelcome Red guests...
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Martin will turn over the duties of his office to Edwin H. Sauer, Lecturer on Education in the Graduate School of Education. When asked whether Sauer's assignment meant he might eventually become Director of General Education A, Martin replied, "the choice of Sauer is not necessarily a portent...
...history-steeped halls of the Kremlin, where Czars were crowned, the 1,378 comrade Deputies of the newly elected Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R. assembled amid all the panoply and portent of a Communist coronation. Kleig lights blazed down from the Corinthian capitals of St. Andrew's Hall; diplomats and newsmen packed the galleries, photographers jammed the aisles. At one minute past 5 o'clock, the top half-dozen Communist bosses entered from the side, led by bald Nikita Khrushchev with his two Orders of Lenin gleaming from his dark lapel. Joining Russian-fashion in the applause...