Word: men
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Khrushchev's space challenge was underrated from the beginning by the U.S.?and it still is. But the very show of technical prowess helped prove how the West's pundits had underrated the appeal of independence and liberty in the so-called battle for men's minds. To millions of the world's uncommitted peoples, Communism's ability to master space was less impressive than its inability to master its own nature?and the symbol of Communism in 1959 was not that of Red rockets reaching for stars, but of Red China reaching brutally into Tibet and India...
...himself would today favor the dynamics of strength: "America's right, our obligations, for that matter, to maintain a respectable establishment for defense?our duty to join in company with like-thinking peoples for mutual self-defense?would, I am sure, be recognized and upheld by the most saintly men ... In a democracy, people should not act like sheep but jealously guard liberty of action." At his words, countless thousands of Gandhi's disciples broke into cheers...
...grandchildren, "and I am very concerned that they get a chance to live a better life than I had." The forces for freedom fired by 1959's Man of the Year would inevitably change the lives of millions of grandchildren and great-grandchildren in an epochal historic way. And men of hope might have new reason to believe that tomorrow's world had a better than even chance...
...York, the Gary Coopers of California, the Nicholas du Fonts of Delaware, General Motors' President John F. Gordon, Chrysler Corp.'s President Lester ("Tex") Colbert, as well as the bejeweled cream of Boston, Philadelphia and Palm Beach society. They promenaded-past 35 car parkers, 16 security men and a formally attired plumber and electrician-through the heavily screened men's locker room into the reception room, where 18-year-old Charlotte, blooming in her Yves St. Laurent (white strapless) exclusive, waited with her parents, her Sister Anne, 16, and her kid Brother Edsel. 11. "Daddy," nagged Edsel...
...poverty-stricken back streets of Manchester, Ernest Marples left grade school to become an apprentice accountant, got into real estate and contracting in London, "and could have retired at 31." Marples is a self-made standout on a Tory Front Bench otherwise filled entirely by university men and Establishment types. He gets down to any problem personally, whether donning a diver's suit to examine the Thames's muddy bottom before his firm drives piles for a London power plant, or cycling through Burgundy to select casks of wine for later bottling in his West End cellar...