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...users' idea in its most extreme concept-as a huge Western economic club to beat down Nasser-had its flaws for John Foster Dulles as well. For the U.S. aim had to be not only to protect its vital interests and those of its Western allies in the Suez and Middle East, but also to negotiate in a manner that did not draw a permanent cleavage between the Western world and the Arab and Asian countries...
...carry out party decisions unconditionally, may now "reserve his opinion and submit it to a leading body if he disagrees." Surest indication of the regime's sense of achieved stability was the news that Red China is about to attempt a system of codified law, a Western concept never adopted or imposed on the Chinese (as it was, for example, by the British in colonial India). Dryly commenting that the contempt for law traditionally shown by China's millions "was probably increased by the mass revolutionary movements, because mass movements did not entirely rely on laws," Peoples Court...
...Greco-Roman corruption of this early faith-and possibly a corruption of Jesus' own faith. Asks Allegro: "Did Jesus himself go all the way of the New Testament? Did [He] really believe He was God in the flesh?" The Qumran community, writes Allegro, would have abhorred the concept of a God-man (as do the Jews and Moslems today), and they would not have thought of admitting Gentiles to salvation. But the Pauline emphasis on the resurrection was "an even greater difference. The Covenanters of Qumran were presumably still waiting for the Resurrection of their Master when they were...
...whopping big order and a pat on the back. Where most U.S. planemakers just build the air frame, then fit on whatever armament, radar, etc. that the Air Force orders, Convair's B58 is the first U.S. aircraft to be built under the new "weapons-system" concept, where the prime contractor is responsible for everything (except engines). On a plane as complex as the Hustler, the new system can save as much as three years in development time...
...Congo raises it above popular adventure fiction. The reader would do well to ignore the author's declaration that "this is the story of the struggle of a man against the forces of evil which drive him, and those of good which inspire him; of a God-woman concept . . ." Not so. It is just a fairly engrossing tropical triangle...