Word: think
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reported the McClure Newspaper Syndicate's Trendex Poll, after sampling opinion while Nixon was in Russia: "Nixon's presidential prospects have been increased tremendously by his Russian visit." Replies to a standard Trendex question-"Do you think Richard Nixon or Nelson Rockefeller would get the most votes for the Presidency as the nominee of the Republican Party?"-showed a phenomenal Nixon upsurge...
Already the Big Two were close enough to being a speaking-and-dealing reality that Western European diplomats were openly discussing it. "You don't know General de Gaulle," snapped a French government official, "if you think he is going to stand idly by and let Russia and the U.S. settle everything." In Britain, the Economist surprisingly took the opposite tack. Ignoring the usual British argument that the West would be lost without the benefit of Britain's deeper diplomatic savvy, the Economist saw an Eisenhower-Khrushchev meeting as "an alternative to the summit," iaatly declared...
Implicit in this mob scene was a fact that came clear from Richard Nixon's Russian tour: after 40 years of relentless indoctrination in the evils of "imperialistic U.S. capitalism," the majority of the Russian people still like Americans, even if they may also think them...
...think you owe the community an apology for the uncalled-for ruckus you have stirred up. You may be wise in Dogpatch, Mr. Capp; but your letter has shown that you are not at all wise in Massachusetts. Yours, CALDWELL TITCOMB
...GOLDEN YOUTH OF LEE PRINCE, by Aubrey Goodman (344 pp.; Simon & Schuster; $4.50), belies the gloom criers who think that U.S. youth consists entirely of beard bearers on one hand and IBM trainees on the other. There are still gold-hatted, high-bouncing young men who know their way to the washroom in the Union Club. In his resplendently gold-jacketed first novel, Yaleman Goodman, 23, lists a few undergraduate acolytes who keep the torch flaming: "Lawlor Reck, who had won the Charleston contest at the Everglades Club in Florida for six years running . . . one of the Du Pont boys...