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...private-enterprise development of petroleum has been vastly successful, but Brazil and Argentina have long since adopted the French-Italian pattern of state oil enterprises. Frankly trying to export the private-enterprise concept, Washington has long refused loans to public companies...
...Physicist Phillips, the reason for this trend, which has grown steadily during recent years, is obvious: "The whole reason is that we have permitted woolly-brained educationists to impose their peculiarly distorted concept of the meaning of education on our whole primary and secondary school system...
John H. Finley, Jr. '14, Master of Eliot House, agreed that the measure could be considered only as a temporary one. He said that the concept of the resident House was "an integral part" of College life, and that the plan, even if adopted, should not extend past the completion of the eighth House, scheduled for the fall...
...launching of the Russian Sputniks riddled many a cherished U.S. concept, including what was left of a tidy but fallacious military notion: that the Army commands the ground, the Navy rules the waves, and the Air Force controls the air. The post-Sputnik clamor for "leadership" can have few positive results unless the U.S. moves toward some system of military organization that makes effective leadership possible. The pressures of missile technology and loose handling of missile problems by the Pentagon have given new currency to an old idea, most recently and vigorously expressed by the Air Force's retired...
...military reality, the buffer-zone concept is as outdated as the medieval moat. In the House of Commons last week British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd patiently explained: "With long-range aircraft, and missiles with ranges of 150 miles and more, it is impossible to disengage in the sense that may have been possible in the age of conventional weapons." The choice, said Lloyd, is between a clearly defined line, "it being known on both sides that to cross that line means war," and a "no-man's land, into which it may be tempting to infiltrate, to try some...