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With prayer, clear thinking and hard work, let us go forward, not backward, from the U.N. There is a pattern by which nations can achieve collective security, even as states already have within the national framework...
...each modest success on Dulles' list, there were two or more major frustrations or setbacks; every Guatemala was more than offset by a Geneva. In each instance the small advances had been made when free men stood boldly together against Communism; the backward steps were invariably the result of division and fear in the free world-attitudes that the Communists never fail to exploit. Among the points of frustration on Dulles' list...
...cause the Bedstead to rise. From a seat on top, the pilot steadies and controls the contraption by shooting compressed air through nozzles mounted on outriggers. When the Bedstead is tilted forward, the jet stream thrusts it ahead. Similarly, pulling the nose up causes the jets to drive it backward. The Bedstead is strictly an experimental device, has gone only 25 feet in the air. But Bell believes that its new swivel-jet plane, with wings, tail and rudder, can be developed into a practical plane...
...wants to be. In a generation of change so rapid that the pace cannot be appreciated, the American self-picture has gone out of focus. The intellectuals, to whom a society looks for its picture, understandably failed to keep up. In the 1930s they were looking backward at the ruin that war, depression and fascism had made of the 19th century's high confidence in rationality, progress and perfectibility. Some clung stubbornly to fragments of the exploded dream. More, resolving never again to be taken in by progress, settled for a program of anti-regression; economic stability and antifascism...
...Marx, Lenin and Stalin); most of their subjects are old-style indifferents. But the Communists, says Riesman, "have become perhaps the most reactionary and most menacing force in world politics" precisely because their picture of the world, while sharply focused, is out of date, and history will not run backward...