Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Summed up General Schriever in a remark that rescued space travel once and for all from the realm of science-fiction fantasy: "In the long haul our safety as a nation may depend upon our achieving space superiority. Several decades from now the important battles may not be sea battles or air battles, but space battles, and we should be spending a certain fraction of our national resources to ensure that we do not lag in obtaining space supremacy." In that effort, Schriever made it substantially clear, the U.S. was determined...
Oregon's Democratic Senator Wayne Morse showed up in the same neck of the woods-and led Dulles into one of the most unfortunate remarks of the hearings. Morse, wringing his hands lest "American boys might have to go over there alone," suggested that Britain and France join the U.S. in backing the Eisenhower Middle Eastern resolution. Dulles replied softly: "I hope, before you commit yourself to that proposition, you will give careful consideration to the reception the British and French could get in the Middle East." Then, half-joking and still referring to the low esteem in which...
...offhandedness, the President's remark touched on the raw nerve ends of those who fear-and have volubly argued -that the little atom in little wars will trigger a Big-Atom World War III. Not so, says Air Force Secretary Donald A. Quarles in a carefully reasoned article in the February issue of Flying...
...dinner, "rollicking, adventurous" Larry Rue, as the Trib called him, received a $500 award from the Trib and provided the only deprecatory note. He was quoted as saying that "he had often heard the remark: 'You're all right, but it's too bad you work for the Chicago Tribune!'" Explained the Trib: "He always puts such people in their place by saying, 'The Tribune never asked me to work for it. I asked the Tribune. I am proud to work for the Tribune because I believe...
Much of the spirit behind William S. White's attempt to describe the essence of the often vexingly incomprehensible United States Senate is revealed in a remark he quotes, made by Lyndon Johnson. "If you can't smell a feeling, you are no kind of a politician." Neither, one senses, does Mr. White feel you're much of a reporter unless you can do the same...