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...fact remained that for weeks the terrorists have not been able to commit a single act of violence. Their entire activity has been reduced to the elementary one of trying to stay alive...
...years. For this privilege, he must give up all use of narcotics unless prescribed for him (or his patients) by a licensed physician. The hope of reinstatement proves a tremendous incentive, but failure to kick the habit is equally strong medicine. With few exceptions, those who lose the battle commit suicide...
...ranging Government antirecession measures. Last week he asked Congress to authorize immediate expenditure of half the funds requested in his 1959 budget for civilian agency supplies and equipment, e.g., desks, paper clips. Promptly okayed by the House Appropriations Committee, the measure will enable the Administration to pay out or commit some $840 million that otherwise would not be touchable until after midyear...
...race? "At first, to be sure, they'd have a grand time jeering at, duping and exploiting its innocence; but I doubt if our half-animal cunning would long be a match for godlike wisdom, selfless valor and perfect unanimity." Still, "against them we shall, if we can, commit all the crimes we have already committed against creatures certainly human but differing from us in features and pigmentation; and the starry heavens will become an object . . . of intolerable guilt." Earth missionaries might try to force on "creatures that did not need to be saved that plan of Salvation which...
NICKEL SURPLUS is building up for first time since Korean war. With its stockpile filled and free world capacity running well ahead of demand, Government will try to renegotiate 45 contracts that commit it to buy heavily of Canadian and U.S. nickel through the mid-1960s at prices up to $1.14 per lb., v. current market price...