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Adlai Stevenson leaped into the fight (TIME, Sept. 8). At Detroit-surrounded Hamtramck, he said that Eisenhower's statement led to "speculation here and abroad that if he were elected, some reckless action might ensue in an attempt to liberate the peoples of Eastern Europe from Soviet tyranny." He added: "I tell you now that I will never fear to negotiate in good faith with the Soviet Union, for to close the door to the conference room is to open a door...
...watchers got their money's worth as Britain's flyers showed their new wares with superb and sometimes reckless showmanship. The Supermarine Swift and the Hawker Hunter, R.A.F. interceptors, flashed past the stands 100 ft. off the ground at an official 715 m.p.h., only a shade below the speed of sound. Pilot Derry in his DH-110, which was later to crash, zoomed to 17,000 ft. in a vertical, barrel-rolling climb. All three planes dived at the field, bombarding the stands with shock waves that sounded like cannon fire...
...Roaring Mountain by Lemonade Lake is about an adulteress who is shot dead by her husband and goes to Hell. The Devil is there to meet her-"a naked gigantic man" with "flat muscled belly and symmetrical widespread legs." He is "reckless," "virile," "resistless," "incontestable," "beautiful," "sinister," "primordial and unrestrained, fierce, overmastering, intemperate," "an essence ... of masculinity" fraught with "potent magnetism"-in brief, "the man every woman hopes she'll be raped by." Whenever the Devil fulfills these hopes, it causes a thunderstorm to break over Hell; much of Roaring Mountain is devoted to this special type of weather...
...Hamtramck. Stevenson told a Polish-American audience that Eisenhower's American Legion speech had "aroused speculation here and abroad that if he were elected, some reckless action might ensue in an attempt to liberate the peoples of Eastern Europe from Soviet tyranny." Stevenson tore into this straw man, saying that the Soviet grip "upon your friends and relatives cannot be loosened by loose talk or idle threats [or] by starting a war which would lead to untold suffering." Toward the end of his speech. Stevenson said that he did not interpret Eisenhower's words in this warlike...
...countrymen, many of whom thought him wrongheaded and reckless as a politician, honored Schumacher as a man. A spokesman for his bitter political foe, the right-wing Free Democratic Party, said of him: "Great opponents are blessings of fate, even if they work fiercely against us and are a great discomfort...