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...couldn't help noticing the petulant remark in TIME by that proponent of Dollar Christianity, Barry Goldwater. Characteristically, Barry values his money above the needs and happiness of an infant...
...General Patton's remark to Reader Breger (who is himself a cartoonist, creator of the much put-upon "Private Breger") was an apt comparison, even if it was not a sound complaint. Dashing Captain Bruce Bairnsfather went to France in 1914 with Britain's Royal Warwickshire Regiment, saw his cartoons-featuring a character called "Old Bill"-become immensely popular with soldiers and civilians alike. For a Bairnsfather World War I classic, which could have served as a prototype for Mauldin's World War II Willie and Joe cartoons...
...come too close to pick up Grissom because of the rotor blast of the first. So Grissom swam 25 yards to a calmer spot, where the second helicopter lowered a "horse collar" and lifted him out of the water. Hurried back to the Randolph, he made his first remark seconds after stepping aboard: "Give me something to blow my nose. My head is full of sea water...
Some of Khrushchev's recent thunder took the form of an astonishing remark to Britain's ambassador in Moscow, Sir Frank Roberts: he boasted that he had all Western Europe at his mercy. Only six hydrogen bombs would be needed to wipe out Britain, said Khrushchev, and nine more would take care of France as well...
Population Explosion. Probably the most difficult problem of the modern world, he said, is the inequality between rich and poor nations. In a remark clearly applicable to the U.S., he said that countries with more than enough food must share it with those that have too little-"to destroy or squander goods that other people need in order to live is to offend against justice and humanity." But while lending such assistance, the economically advanced countries must "overcome the temptation to impose themselves by means of these works . . . a new form of colonialism." On the other hand, the population explosion...