Word: think
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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READ YOUR AUG. 4 PRESS STORY AND WOULD LIKE MAKE ONE CORRECTION: FIRST MEN IN BAGHDAD WERE TWO, STAN CARTER AND MYSELF. WHEN WE ARRIVED ON IRAQI MILITARY PLANE FROM DAMASCUS, OFFICERS AT BAGHDAD AIRPORT DIDN'T KNOW WHO WE WERE. THEY SEEMED TO THINK WE WERE EITHER AMERICAN OFFICERS OR MOON MEN. I WAS FIRST MAN TO INTERVIEW BRIGADIER EL-KASSIM...
...both an immediate and long-range focus. For example, he believes that something should be done soon to show how the World Court can be employed to settle claims in international trade and investment, thus providing a sure remedy for either nations or investors who think they have been wronged-to the ultimate benefit of world trade and investment. On another tack he wants to study the comparative law of all nations to see where the common denominator might lie for progress toward a world rule...
...think," he said, "that first of all, if we are going to remain a country without artificial controls, meaning that we are not going to try to go into a federally controlled economy, then labor and business must be careful about this whole problem of pushing wages each year above those rates that imply or show the increases in productivity. And business must make its profits of such a scale that where they can still continue to invest money they are not robbing the public. Because if they do, just as sure as you are a foot high...
...bomb survivors not yet struck down by atom sickness, the worst damage appears psychological. Many of them try to conceal their identities because they often find themselves shunned. Says one Japanese bitterly: "People are afraid of us. They think we are going to fall sick and become a burden, or contaminate them. We know now how lepers feel." In a public-opinion poll, 40% of Japanese questioned said they would not marry a bomb survivor; 80% of those who would said they would refuse to have children. But the most gnawing fear of the survivors was expressed...
...pessimistic about his chances of getting the Sunpapers. "It's a profitable property-I'm afraid they're not going to sell," he admits. But he was optimistic about adding other links to his chain. "I plan to keep going," he says. "I don't think I'll catch Hearst or Scripps-Howard in my lifetime, but I think my boys Don and Si will give it a good...