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...strife-torn world, tottering on the brink of complete destruction by man-made nuclear weapons, a free and independent Africa is in the making, in answer to the injunction and challenge of history: 'Arise and shine, for thy light is come...
...that The Rain Never Falls makes very little sense if you don't buy some of Gardner's beliefs; his essential assumption being that the great attack will somehow come about because of internal evil, that the greed and weakness of our society will push us over the brink. I cannot share this archaic, retributive morality; nor do I buy the proposition that all evil is alike and from a common source...
More than most youthful industries, the burgeoning U.S. computer business is dominated by giants-IBM, Philco, Sperry Rand. A notable exception is an aggressive young Minneapolis firm with the electronic-era name of Control Data. In four years, Control Data has risen from the brink of financial ruin to such strength that on occasion it can even push the big boys around. The formula, explains professorial William C. Norris, Control Data's 50-year-old president, is disarmingly simple: "Aim for a piece of the market and then do a better job than anyone else...
...breath-taking Andean valley two miles high, yet more than ten thousand feet below the summits of massive snowpeaks. Before Cornell University anthropologists began--by arrangement with the government of Peru--an unusual development program in 1952, the hacienda's two thousand Quechua-speaking Indians lived on the brink of starvation...
...Janos Kadar and Argentina's fat Victorio Codovilla, who once was Stalin's top agent in Spain, and such party hacks as France's Maurice Thorez and Italy's Palmiro Togliatti, both symbols of failure from countries that, scarcely a decade ago, seemed on the brink of Communism...