Word: statements
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pretty fanciful one at that. Aleksandr Nikolaevich Nesmeyanov, president of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, flatly declared on June 1, 1957 that the Russians "have created the rockets and all the instruments and equipment necessary to solve the problem of the artificial earth satellite." Had Nesmeyanov made a similar statement last week about Russia's readiness to make a trip to the moon, his declaration would have made the front pages everywhere. A year has made a world of difference. Today, with Russia's giant 1½ ton Sputnik orbiting in space alongside the more finely tooled objects...
...chief under Perez Jimenez] had been virtually liquidated, and the subsitute police did not know how to cope with the mob." This was also the verdict of experts on the scene, appalled by the ease with which a crowd of several hundred rioters tied up the police. Dulles' statement was perfectly accurate; some touchy Venezuelans reacted, however, as though he were lamenting the liquidation of Estrada's hated police...
...first time in his twelve years as president of the United Auto Workers, Walter Reuther took a licking. With auto-industry contracts due to expire this week, Reuther last week jettisoned his key demand-for profit sharing. He issued a face-saving statement that profit sharing "was never a demand, but a mechanism for giving the stockholders, consumers, workers and managers their just equities.'' This fooled no one. Behind closed doors Reuther himself had told unionists that they must cut their demands, take "a more realistic" approach to bargaining. He decided to drive for a 10? hourly wage...
America and Hawaii. Protestants charged the Mormons with "pouring in money." Cried an official Presbyterian statement: ''They go from door to door infiltrating and trying to make converts. They are only interested in sheep stealing...
...Russian, or religious, as in the case of the Swede, is equally damnable and pathetic. His theme is exile -external and internal -and those who are willing to follow a subtle course of sinuous prose will agree that he has justified his right to preface his book with the statement of the grand exile -Dostoevsky: "All that -all your foreign countries, your famous Europe -is only a delusion, and all of us, living in foreign countries, are only a delusion...