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...point of explosion in Europe would be reached when Russian power came within proximate domination of the Continent. At that point the instincts of survival in the West would prompt decisive action and a joining of the issue. The way to avoid war is not to allow this expansion. This is why the American public should, and generally does, support Secretary Byrnes's increasing and why the whole of non-Communist Europe is heartened...
...must be the business of a genuine liberalism not to relax our outer defenses but to make our political and economic life more worthy of our faith and therefore more impregnable. War with Russia is neither imminent nor inevitable if we have a creative policy. Let us, therefore, avoid hysteria even while we abjure sentimental illusions...
...stammer. Sometimes he could scarcely project his palsied voice past his lips. Sometimes, uncontrollably, it filled the whole room with its blurting bass boom. What gave him great dignity was the complete purity of his manner in its courtesy, diffidence, simplicity, and the pungency of his expression. Since, to avoid the fatigue of unnecessary speech, he edits his thoughts, his conversation has some of the finish of literature...
...alcoholic? Alcoholism, answer psychiatrists, is a symptom of mental disease, and thus chronic drinking in many cases may be as unavoidable and blameless as catching a cold. But last week a Pennsylvania court, in a case involving alcoholism, contradicted the psychiatrists' view, argued that a man can avoid becoming an alcoholic if he wants...
...hotels, apartments, a nightclub (Manhattan's glittering Monte Carlo), shipping piers, warehouses, a steamship company, shopping centers in Denver, Houston and Atlanta, a nine-mile railroad and a 2,300-acre oilfield in Louisiana (one well came in last fortnight from a depth of 10,000 ft.). To avoid pyramiding, each new permanent project has been financed independently...