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...called "aerospace" has as its prime immediate assignment the development and production of the weapons upon which the U.S. rests its hopes of maintaining its power and freedom. Beyond these here-and-now military needs lies another historic assignment-the creation of devices that will end man's age-old confinement to the earth and its atmosphere, and open up to human exploration the far corners of the universe...
...world's largest common market. It aims at free trade within the largest possible area, enabling industries to cut costs, labor to specialize, capital to move freely where needed in a mass market-to the economic benefit of producer, worker and consumer. But set against Europe's age-old rivalries and stubborn economic nationalism, in which trade barriers used to be as fanatically guarded as national borders, the Common Market is an astonishingly uncommon development...
...continuing boom has provided enough trade for everybody, put the problem of the competition-restraining cartels far down on the priority list. Also, free movement of labor within the Market area is still more theoretical than real. The Community has provided migrant workers with comprehensive social security, but the age-old reluctance of workers to move persists, though Italian workers now provide more than 60% of the Belgian mining industry's labor force. The fact is, unemployment is so low all over the Community that few workers need to migrate. The Market's boom has even reduced chronically...
...misjudge the force of the challenge we face-a force that uses means we cannot adopt to achieve ends we cannot permit. Nor can we mistake the nature of the struggle. It is not for concessions or territory. It is not simply between different systems. It is the age-old battle for the survival of liberty itself...
Perhaps it is silly to try to understand the complex and sophisticated problems which surround the management of Harvard grounds and buildings. The latest ingenious scheme emerged last week in the context of the age-old struggle between pigeons and buildings...