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...professional man of affairs such as Admiral Rickover. Unfortunately, the builder of the atomic submarine seems to have thought more about the demands which reality places upon America than about the equipment with which we must meet this crisis. He sees very clearly that we are at the brink of disaster, that the Sputnik was not merely a fluke, and that unless a revolution takes place, our economic and technical advantage over the Soviets will soon be a matter of history. But he is perhaps overly optimistic in supposing that the schools can remedy this cultural...
BECAUSE Secretary of State John Foster Dulles has refused to negotiate away U.S. strengths for Communist promises, he has been derided by the idealists as "negative" and "inflexible,'' taxed for such hard-hitting phrases as "massive retaliation and "brink of war." Last week, in a notable speech to the New York State Bar Association in Manhattan, Dulles made it clear that he is trying to steer U.S. policy toward the most positive and flexible peace-seeking goal known to civilized man: a world rule of law that substitutes "justice and law for force," leaves room for "peaceful change...
...farmer's ego. Massey-Ferguson did not have far to look for the real prototype of the man it described: Massey President Albert A. Thornbrough, 46. When Kansas-born Al Thornbrough became the firm's executive vice president three years ago, the company was on the brink of bankruptcy. This week, by virtue of his aggressive policies, the company proved a remarkable comeback from 1957's losses of $4,700,000; it announced 1958 earnings that topped $13 million, or $1.25 a share. While sales in Europe, Africa, Australia, South America-even in Canada-were down slightly...
...opponents' raise, especially if each side knows the other's hand. If the Soviets can marshal a substantial missile margin they can force peripheral issues and fragment our alliances by bullying smaller nations into neutrality. In short, our missile supply may be sufficient to discourage Russian attack once the brink of war is reached; but when the Soviets possess missile superiority they may be able to force our allies to yield before the critical point is reached...
...dimension-but still not enough. For a full understanding, and hence for successful psychotherapy, they hold that man must be seen in his entirety, in the light of his self-consciousness, his imagination, his creativity, and his unique ability to see himself as a finite creature, poised on the brink of nothingness-as Pascal put it, "here rather than there, now rather than then...