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...rebuff has ever stopped Christofilos. He wrote a second letter in 1950, outlining what is now called the "strong focusing" principle for building big accelerators. The reply from California advised him to read a certain mathematical book and clear up some errors. Christofilos did so, polished his theory and brought it to New York in 1953. He went straight to the Public Library, where he found that the strong focusing principle had already been developed independently by Brookhaven National Laboratory. "So you see," he says irrepressibly, "on the first day I came back to my country I found that...
...divisions to fight in Algeria without a by-your-leave, and on other occasions-including the U.S. transfer of the Sixth Fleet during the Quemoy crisis-NATO had not been too scrupulously notified. What mattered this time was that De Gaulle was not pleading a necessity, but intending a rebuff. His ministers were almost apologetic in having to deliver it to allies. (Even ultranationalist Premier Michel Debré privately argued against De Gaulle's action.) De Gaulle was plainly 1) miffed at U.S. abstention during the last U.N. vote on the Algerian revolt, 2) determined to be admitted, along...
...apple of Papa Samuel Eaton's eye, and poor Alfred is the apple core. When the brother dies at 14, Alfred is cut off without a pennyworth of love by the steelmaster millionaire father. With old-fashioned pre-Freudian directness. Author O'Hara allows this rebuff to clue the pattern of Alfred Eaton's life. From then on, he is destined to confer his love rather than give it, to make contact with people rather than make friends. His outwardly charming, cold-fish personality seems to carry a jinx. Before he is 20, he is partially responsible...
...Defense Appropriations Subcommittee and the House's ablest military specialist. While his fellow Democrats sat silent, Mahon spoke of his deep friendship for Vinson, then, with all the emotion he could muster, told why he was aligning himself with the Republicans: "I am not going to rebuff the President on this issue. I do not think it would be good statesmanship or good politics." When he finished, the Republicans, 100 strong, rose to give him an ovation...
...flip that Director Lean sometimes started the camera rolling while Alec thought he was still rehearsing. While building a part, Guinness shuts everything else out of his life. He lives his role all day, dreams it at night. In the grip of an unpleasant character, he will coldly rebuff his friends; in the mood of a charming one, he is "simply wizard and a ruddy dear" to people he detests...