Word: talked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unions happy, for the one unifying force at Cape Canaveral is a widespread epidemic of missile fever. In nearby Cocoa Beach, and in towns up and down the coast, missilemen and their families have infected the whole populace with the fever. In motels, bars and restaurants, the prevailing talk is rocketry, its failures and its triumphs. One restaurant is fitting out its roof garden with telescopes; sons of missilemen are shooting their own miniature rockets; a ladies' luncheon club has dubbed itself the Missile Misses; and no sooner does a contractor develop a new weapon than a new motel...
Driven by an unhappy awareness of Britain's declining power and her vulnerability to nuclear attack, an increasing number of Englishmen are disposed to favor summit talks on almost any terms. The parade of politicians who play on this wistful longing for talks for talk's sake is headed by Labor Party Leader Hugh Gaitskell. The West should not insist on summit talks "supposed to put the final seal on everything," argues Gaitskell; instead, it should be willing to settle for what he calls "the ice-breaking type of conference...
Last week the talk of literary Germany was a Darmstadt professor's painstakingly documented debunking of that myth. The crude myth of the racist Nietzsche, argued Professor Karl Schlechta in his new edition of the seer's works, was the consciously perpetrated fraud of his sister, guardian and sole literary executrix, the late Frau Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche...
...nearby schools, are escorted to subways by a teacher, who pays for their rides out of public funds. Both schools require neat dress; the Brooklyn unit even insists on ties. In the classroom, the boys usually keep up a cocky, running banter with their teacher. But they can talk with the weariness of old age about their problems. "I'm a troublemaker," said one eighth grader. "I started everything that ever happened...
...this she recalled in her bitter, 156-page book entitled simply Peggy, published last month and already a runaway bestseller in France. One reader deeply moved by the book was Dr. Xavier Leclainche, boss of public assistance for Paris. He called in Author Vernhes for a talk, issued swift orders. At his seven children's hospitals, parents may henceforth stay round the clock at the bedside of any patient near death. The youngsters may keep such items as lockets and crosses, and their own clothes. Parents may be present before and after all operations, and there will be waiting...