Word: targets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Miami speech, Stevenson had set his sights on Ike; the Democratic tar get for '54, he indicated, was to be the President himself. In Charlotte last week, Ike was all but praised. Stevenson's target became the men around Ike and the G.O.P. itself. "When our President bestirs himself, ignores the expedient counsel of small-bore politicians and clears the high-pressure salesmen out of his house." said Stevenson, "I confidently predict that the American people will be enthusiastically and gratefully behind him. But I fear he will have to make his choice between uniting his party...
...London's Laborite Daily Herald. The Manchester Guardian asked, in reference to U.S. plans for another test shot in late April: "Is it really wise to proceed with these explosions?" In the House of Commons, the Laborites used the bomb as a new political weapon on their old target, the U.S. And Prime Minister Churchill, in the most solemn tone, assured a hushed House of Commons that the "overwhelming consequences of development ... fill my mind out of all comparison with anything else...
McCraken's monopoly position in the state is often a target for critics, but he has a ready answer. "No one is entitled to any market," says he, "unless he can put out the best product." In Wyoming his product is indisputably the best. His Northern Wyoming Daily News in Worland (pop. 4,202) is one of the few newspapers in the U.S. with a larger circulation (4,276) than the population of the town in which it is published...
...Hollywood, Cinemactor Gene Autry, who in his western film fare for kiddies regularly shoots or slugs it out successfully with mustached villains, became the target of a $10,000 damage suit. A clock salesman accused Gene of beating him up "wantonly, maliciously and outrageously" after a street-corner discussion involving their horseless carriages...
Infectious Attitude. "Perhaps the essence of the American outlook," says the report, "lies in the insistence that a target that has been realistically established can and must be achieved. The difficulties that inevitably occur are regarded not as inevitable strokes of fate which make delay inevitable but simply as difficulties which will probably be overcome with energy and persistence. This attitude is an infectious...