Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pinwheels. As a steadying influence, the House is improbable because, by its very nature, it is divisive. From the 64 members of the original 13 states (who thought they had troubles enough), the House has grown to 435 (plus one vacancy). It is divided into 282 Democrats and 153 Republicans.* Or, depending on who is doing the counting, it is divided into 129 Easterners, 120 Southerners, 128 Midwesterners, 58 Westerners. Or it can be divided into 16 women and 419 men. Or 228 lawyers and 207 nonlawyers. Or 261 veterans (including Spanish-American War Corporal Barratt O'Hara, Chicago Democrat...
...evidence was nonetheless piling up that U.S. policymakers, along with the AEC, were beginning to pause for second sober thought. Most members of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy have turned against the idea of stopping all nuclear tests until foolproof inspection can be guaranteed. The likelihood increased that the Senate would probably refuse to ratify a nuclear treaty without such safeguards. Thus at week's end the McCone plan of agreeing to stop the atmosphere tests only -while continuing to seek methods of detecting underground tests -seemed to make good sense. If the Russians were sincere...
...Filipinos hold the U.S. -an affection so strong that Ramon Magsaysay used to proclaim: "Let who ever wants run as an anti-American. I'll run as an open pro-American and beat him easily." Recalling Magsaysay's max im, some of Manila's political pundits thought that Carlos Garcia was making the biggest mistake of his long political career...
...Pensive Thought. Another melancholy man turned up last year as a possible suitor: the hawk-nosed, greying Shah of Iran, 39, able and conscientious, divorced from his Queen Soraya and badly needing a son for his heirless kingdom. Attracted by published pictures of Princess Ella, he went to Geneva ostensibly for dental care, was a dinner guest at the sprawling Merlinge villa where Ella lives with ex-Queen Marie José. After the Shah departed, the Italian press clamored so loudly that lovely Ella again visited her native land. At a press conference, after some pensive thought, she told reporters...
...friends thought he would be safer in Munich than in Berlin. He enrolled for German and English lessons at the Munich Berlitz school (he speaks no English, and has barely one sentence of German, learned by rote: "The censor understands nothing of love."). A U.S. foundation arranged an American visit for him; the International Rescue Committee helped him get a visitor's visa. His movie was about to open in New York...