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...that there is no honor or loyalty left in the land ... I would say one thing: 'Take off your blinders and look toward the future. The worst danger we face is the danger of being paralyzed by doubts and fears. This danger is brought on by those who abandon faith and sneer at hope . . .' Yet, at heart, I do not greatly fear such men, for they have always been with us, and in the long run they have always failed...
...nations. When he talks of the University's emasculation of geography in the last three years, his slightly foreign-accented voice raises and he lets his heavy spectacles drop from his eyes. "It is tragic, tragic," he says, "that in a period like this the University choose to practically abandon the one subject which teaches the differences and similarities between nations. For both an Army officer or a United Nations official, geography is the vital subject...
...until the mandarin enters: he has to be thrashed, stabbed, choked and finally hanged before he can be made to die. That moves even the streetwalker. Too late, she realizes what the power of passion can be, throws herself on the mandarin's still body in almost necrophilic abandon...
...world's biggest homebuilder, Long Island's Bill Levitt has been hard hit by the squeeze of credit restrictions and materials shortages. He had to cut his 1951 output of low-priced houses to 2,500, compared to 5,333 last year, and abandon altogether his "Landia" project for 1,750 homes in the $13,000 class. To get started again at the pace he and his brother Al need for their cost-cutting methods, Bill Levitt has been roaming the U.S. looking for a big, new site in a critical defense area. Last week he announced that...
...Peking radio had taken to calling him "Stonewall Joy." Also from the Communist radio came the first hints of a compromise. Their position was "not inflexible," the Reds said: "adjustments" were possible and the "first steps" toward peace had been taken. Presumably these adjustments meant that the Chinese would abandon their insistence on a 38th parallel cease-fire line, and agree to some kind of defensible military lines for both sides, as the U.N. has urged all along...