Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...must take exception to the remark that the Ole Miss faculty "timidly failed to make any serious effort to quiet down the students...
...your remark that the University of Mississippi is "cheerfully unintellectual": Ole Miss ranks second in the South in turning out Rhodes scholars, ranks above the nation al average in faculty Ph.D.s, and our distinguished chancellor, John D. Williams, has been honored over the past few years by the presidency of the American Association of College and University Administrators...
...this remark perplexed the reporter, his perplexity was understandable. At that time, hardly anyone knew who Marianne Means was. Kennedy did. What is more, his comment about her was not just a prediction, but a promise. By last week, having just signed a new contract with the Hearst papers ($ 15,000 the first year, $17,500 the second). Marianne Means, 28, could claim title as the only White House correspondent to have got her job through the President...
Nevertheless, it might be possible to hold the opinion that responsible government officials were perfectly aware of the possible consequences of the explosion--although Kennedy's flippant press conference remark casts some doubt on this--and yet felt that urgent military needs justified the risk...
Second: Van Allen and other scientists who have cooperated with the military originally said there would be no change in the radiation belts. Hence Kennedy's offhand remark at a press conference before the explosion: "I know there's been a disturbance about the Van Allen belt, but Van Allen says it's not going to affect the belt, and it's his." Immediately after the test, however, Van Allen claimed to have predicated all along that that there would be a dramatic though temporary perturbation in "his belt" along with the creation of an intense, short-lived artificial belt...