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...fight. But they disagree sharply in their judgment of U.S. policy preceding the Red attack. Stevenson approves without reservation the Administration's course of action; Eisenhower views the Administration's decisions as a "record of appalling failure" that laid Korea open to attack. In the debate, sharpest political issue of the campaign, Eisenhower moved into the winner's position last week. The record on which his Detroit speech was based: 1) General Albert Wedemeyer's report of 1947, after a trip to the Far East under presidential directive. Warned Wedemeyer: "The withdrawal of American military forces...
...Back in the last war," said the letter, "he was the sharpest cadet ever to hit the runways at Maxwell Field. He soloed after four hours, slow-rolled after 20. By the time he reached Basic, he could do a splitS from 2,000 feet; in Advanced, he could fly instruments like a night hawk, and he'd give his instructor the jitters by touching wing tips in formation...
With these lines, a Belgian poetess registered her protest against Fellow Poetess Pierette Micheloud, of Vex, Switzerland, who insisted on puffing away at a long-stemmed, elegant pipe. The limerick was by far the sharpest contribution heard at the First International Poetry Biennial, which assembled 200 poets from 30 countries at Knokke le Zoute, Belgian seaside resort, to spend a happy four days talking shop and eying each other's iambs...
Next day, when the stock market took one of its sharpest flops in recent weeks, many traders blamed Turner's gloomy prophecy. Turner, who had misread revised figures on the 1953 budget, was quickly contradicted, not only by Presidential Assistant John Steelman and Boss Mobilizer Henry H. Fowler, but finally by his red-faced self. Steelman and Fowler stated-and Turner agreed-that the current $12½-billion-per-quarter rate of military expenditures will reach a peak of some $14 billion in mid-1953, then level out for two years...
...head now. One out of every five persons you meet on the street are heads. But all those things they say about them aren't true. There are lots of blowing cats [musicians] who have been smoking for years. Lots of doctors. People aren't the sharpest. They don't catch on. Not even on junk. You know you don't have to stand in the middle of the living room and say, 'Pardon me, mother, while I have a fix!' Why don't people leave us alone...