Word: viewings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Without Horns. In view of the talent and tenacity that Dick Nixon has shown in ten years of dramatically successful political life, it was not surprising that he should be an effective campaigner in 1956. What surprised many political observers was his ability to become a shining asset-and not a liability-to the Republican cause. The victim of a concentrated assault unparalleled in recent U.S. political history, he first had to erase the black and distorted picture his foes had painted unceasingly for nearly eight years. One of his aides summed up the task: "We had to show...
...into the House of Representatives. (On the Senate he wasn't guessing.) Quick to sense the weakness of Adlai Stevenson's H-bomb proposal (it attempts to hit Eisenhower where he is strongest), Nixon set out to tie it to Democratic candidates for Congress. His challenge: "In view of the terrible danger this program presents, it is time for all candidates for national office to stand up and be counted on this issue. [ believe that every candidate for the House and Senate, Republican and Democrat, should state before Election Day whether he favors the Eisenhower proposal for disarmament...
...Long View. In New Orleans, after her 17-year-old son, Francis Jr., and Thomas Lee, 18. were booked for disturbing the peace when cops found them trying to cure their ennui by sitting back to back and blindfolded in the middle of U.S. Rt. 90, Mrs. Francis Fahrenheit huffed: "Trouble with people is they forget they were kids...
Campbell actually likes facts. He prints stories, for instance, which present a basic pattern of facts and then view them in new, provocative ways. That, indeed, is just what the author of "Deadline" did. He used certain known bits of science information about the nature of the atom, put them all together, and came up with the A-bomb...
...most part, advocates of this viewpoint are far from being "screwballs." Many are scientists. They are seriously interested in this variety of science fiction because it gives them a chance to view established facts in new, imaginative combinations. In dealing with science fiction, they are not bound by any old, tried and true concepts. They can let themselves go and actually have some fun. And, occasionally, they may come up with a valuable new idea. Through creative thinking they may not get answers but, as Campbell states, "They will get a sense of security from knowing that they will...