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...turned slowly to the military potential of the atom. While the Air Force and its Strategic Air Command took over an urgent proprietorship in the atomic age, the Navy fought stoutly to preserve its great fleet, to keep a maximum of ships at sea. It fought the Air Force concept of long-range nuclear retaliation as immoral and stupid-and came perilously close to foreclosing its own future as anything but a sub-hunting ferry command...
...Most ministers had what Sociologist Blizzard calls a "theological concept" of the church. Of these, 37% were "individualistic" ("The church is the place where an individual has a personal experience with God"), and 33% were "sacramental" ("The church is the mediator of God's grace"). Thirty percent held a "communal" view of the church ("We are a fellowship of believers...
...line with the Mormon concept that the family should share the father's business, the Bensons have made the U.S. farm problem their problem. As the result of long discussions at home, the Secretary's wife once got him to publicize milk-dispensing machines to help relieve the dairy-product surplus. Flora Benson attends many of his press conferences, and occasionally finds time from her duties at home (she has no maid, does her own housework) to make a speech. In Toledo last week for a speech at a Republican women's meeting, she said...
...productions has appealed to the romantic and creative natures of drama people here. They are quick to respond to the ingenuity that a stage designer must evince every time a play is produced. Seats have been pulled from Sanders to make way for Alcestic and Willy Loman; the whole concept of leisurely dining has been disrupted by the energetic stage hands who work while the rest of the House eats. A producer must be a jack-of-all-trades at Harvard. He must know where he can rent lights for the cheapest rates, what printer will put out his program...
...ideas which are greatly under-estimated as pure ideas and are looked at mainly in terms of what tangible objects they will produce," he maintained. Weisskopf cited the theory of electromagnetic fields, Einstein's Theory of Relativity, "one of the greatest ideas human thinking ever brought about," the Darwinian concept of evolution, and the little known quantum theory as examples of scientific ideas with profound philosophical implications...