Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Importuned by newsmen as he left a Capitol Hill hearing, McElroy hustled to the Pentagon, checked his records, jogged his memory, heated his temper and summoned the Joint Chiefs. Had they received any such proposal? The official, collective answer: negative. But Army Chief of Staff Maxwell Taylor explained that he had given Reston "background information," might well have oversimplified in trying to get his point across. McElroy glared, suggested that Taylor had been less than candid with Newsman Reston, announced that the incident was closed...
...temper of the week was perhaps best reflected by Vice President Richard Nixon in a speech to 1,200 business leaders. Said Nixon: "The major threat from Russia does not lie in overt aggression, but from aggression in the economic, political and psychological fields . . . The concern I have tonight is that while we are, as we should be, putting emphasis on military strength, we might fail to develop what we need to do to avoid losses in other fields . . . There are many differences among the uncommitted countries of the world, but they all want economic progress, and they want...
...laugh over his shoulder to Mikoyan or talk with proper gravity to the beaming Egyptian War Minister. I elbowed my way in like a diplomat and began working with two cameras strung around my neck. Good-humoredly ignoring the listening, watching press, he seemed calm and in good temper as he surveyed the crowd, shook hands with the incoming Japanese ambassador. I stood only three feet from him, clicking away, looking for a flicker of a beady eye or something revealing, finding him really rather gold-toothed, charming, but thinking, "I'll bet he's seen some things...
...crude, vulgar and unbecoming display of a nasty temper." Thus wrote Florida's Supreme Court in 1953, scolding Circuit Judge Stanley Milledge for the way he had bawled out an attorney in his courtroom. In Miami last week, testy, white-haired Judge Milledge, 61, flew into another tantrum and onto Florida front pages in probably the least judicial photograph of a judge yet to reach print...
...political threat to an area that the Communists have long and unsuccessfully sought to domi nate. He sought to intimidate NATO Partner Turkey, which is menaced by Russia on the north and by an increasingly Red Syria on the south (see FOREIGN NEWS). He sought to feel out the temper of the NATO nations and discover whether the U.S.'s European allies would stand by the U.S. He also sought to make an impressive power play before impression able Arabs and to undermine the U.S.'s regional and worldwide prestige...