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...Paul Freeman of Roanoke, Va., fought a rearguard action at Kunu to save as much as possible of an eight-mile vehicle train. Said the colonel: "We will go down the road on trucks, if we can. Otherwise we will destroy the trucks and go over the mountains, shooting backward every step of the way. We've gone through miracle after miracle, and we need one more...
...London, old Storyteller Somerset Maugham, 76, took a realistic backward look: "I am very glad to be old because I know that we had a better life before 1914 than we have ever had since. When I look at my grandchildren, I anxiously wonder what sort of life lies before them...
...this the most effective method of weakening the aggressive motives of the Russian government? It seems to foreclose any possibility of increased contact between Russians and the West. It provides a bona fide foreign threat against which the Soviet government can organize. It puts the development of backward economies, the development of free institutions, and the development of a common loyalty to the United Nations in a position clearly inferior to the development of military establishments...
...test system would produce an "intellectual elite" in the colleges, and thus is undemocratic. And, of course, the test itself is not so much one of intelligence as it is of education and background. Thus, some groups would definitely be discriminated against--Negroes, low income groups, people in backward rural areas...
Younger asked democracies to lay out money and effort on backward areas; to "organize welfare and opportunity for the masses by the use of communal resources"; and to "provide the main support for popular education, for research, and for the artists...