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When the Federal Government launched a program last fall to gas chickens-more than 7 million so far-in an effort to contain an influenza virus in Pennsylvania, it said it had "depopulated" the birds. "We use that terrible word depopulation to avoid saying slaughter," explained a federal information officer, David Goodman...
...EXCITEMENT over the growth of discovery, Boorstin is concerned about the barriers that contain discovery--fear, complacency, and secrecy. Each barrier is illustrated with varied and memorable anecdotes. The first Portuguese navigators, for example, took fright at the shallow waters of Cape Bojador in Africa. Yet as soon as one ship had rounded the Cape, these same men dared sail any sea, just as the test pilots in The Right Stuff would fly at any speed after Chuck Yeager broke the once terrifying sound barrier...
...Presumably," the letter concludes, "those demonstrating so insistently against the prospect of admitting James Watt to the K-School as a fellow will contain their emotions upon learning that he is in fact the new Dean of the Faculty...
...swift Western response to the Berlin blockade reflected postwar thinking about how to manage the Soviets. Writing in Foreign Affairs under the pen name "X" in 1947, George Kennan, then head of the State Department's policy planning staff, argued that the West should "contain" the U.S.S.R. by countering Soviet pressure at crisis spots around the globe. But Kennan later denied paternity of any "containment" strategy. It was President Harry Truman who made it the cornerstone of U.S. foreign policy. In requesting $400 million in military and economic aid to Greece and Turkey, which were threatened by Communist expansion...
...responses are replete with contradictions: 54% agree that every sign of Soviet influence must be contained, "with military force, if necessary, whatever the risk." But even larger majorities recognize that "we do not have the power to contain Soviet influence everywhere in the world" (79%) and that a "military containment policy is what got us into trouble in Viet Nam" (83%). And 93% agree that "picking a fight is too dangerous in a nuclear world" and that "we should be thinking in terms of peaceful solutions." As for who should negotiate and when, 76% favor a meeting between Reagan...