Word: unpopularities
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...while, the chairmanship of the Atomic Energy Commission seemed to be the most unpopular top-level job in Washington: the AEC chairman must not only possess considerable administrative ability, along with scientific and technological know-how, but he must also be able to thread his way through highly emotional issues while keeping the U.S. on a straight, or at least a safe, nuclear course...
...government and big giveaways. Once in office, Frondizi decided that only austerity and a sizable injection of foreign capital could save Argentina. He then coolly sought the backing of the bitterly anti-Perón armed forces to force through what he knew was certain to be an unpopular program...
...term of office. Yet it is plain that each upheaval is a little less threatening than the one before. It is also clear that none of Frondizi's opponents feel strongly enough to apply the final measure of pressure needed to turn out Argentina's lonely and unpopular President. Feelings have become more and more neutral, and one of Buenos Aires' leading papers now aptly and blandly describes Frondizi as "the President we managed...
...live as the richest he; and therefore truly, sir, I think it's clear that every man that is to live under a government ought first by his own consent put himself under that government." While St. Robert Bellarmine is entitled to the greatest credit for his unpopular thesis in those days that the authority of the Pope over heads of state was only indirect and spiritual, this is not nearly as important to Jefferson and Madison as John Locke and the Puritan revolution...
Edward Teller, 52, vehemently dislikes his title: "Father of the H-bomb." In the first place, he argues, the big bomb was the creation of many minds. Even more important, the phrase is unpopular with Teller's teen-age son Paul. Explains Teller: "No one would want the hydrogen bomb for a kid brother." But the rumpled, Hungarian-born physicist has small chance of escape. Many minds did indeed contribute to the U.S. H-bomb, but it was Teller's basic insight that made the finished product possible. Today, he teaches a freshman course in physics appreciation at U.C.L.A...