Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story, and generally acted as though he thought Editor Greenspun (one of his bitterest.critics) had made it all up. Arthur Eisenhower obliged. Interviewed at Phoenix on his way home, he said: "Sure I called him the most dangerous menace to America, but I don't understand why the remark caused excitement." Back home in Kansas City, he was asked if his statement reflected the viewpoint of the President. "That's the hell of it," he said unhappily. "People misinterpret things. I want," he added belatedly, "to keep out of controversial subjects...
...cities. And finally, there is a battle royal in a busted cable car suspended thousands of feet above the Andes (the picture never makes clear what Mexicans are doing in the Andes). As the car plunges to destruction-after all the right people are rescued-a Mexican makes a remark that may fittingly serve as a caption for the whole show. It was, he says, "a beautiful disaster...
...glass-ceilinged criminal court in London's Old Bailey last week was like any other: nine men and three women bent on bringing in a just verdict. Looking at them as he made his final address, Britain's Attorney General Sir Lionel Heald was moved to remark: "You are like travelers in a strange country." The metaphor was apt: few stranger countries have been thrown open for exploration than the mind of John Reginald Halliday Christie, confessed murderer of seven women...
Tenzing, who at the age of ten was herding Tibetan yaks above 20,000 ft., was riled at his leader's remark. Egged on by Nepalese hotheads (including Communists), he was induced to sign a statement, which he could not read, saying: "I practically directed operations from Khumbu Glacier...
Mendès-France broke with tradition by not engaging in the usual horse trading with other parties before presenting himself for investiture. He now jarred the Assembly with the remark: "I will ask all [my cabinet ministers] to engage themselves on their honor not to participate in the government which will succeed mine." Young, ambitious Assemblymen were delighted. But older political leaders, the professional perennial ministers, were suspicious. When it came to the vote, there were 191 deliberate abstentions and 119 (including the 96 Communists) votes against him. Nevertheless there were 301, votes (including the 105 Socialists...