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Future British foreign policy will depend little on which party is in power. Though Winston Churchill, the Conservative leader, is a strong backer of a European political union, he would probably be no more amenable to integrating Britain's economy with that of the rest of Western Europe than is the present cabinet. The only point on which the Tories have seriously attacked Ernest Bevin's foreign policy is the granting of independence to India and Burma, which could hardly be revised...
...Dartmouth all offer this much to prospective athletes. Harvard, apparently, wants nothing to do with official job guarantees to its football players. Such a plan involving no more than 50 men would probably hit stonewall resistance--but help for athletes in the form of honest jobs need not depend on favoritism of any sort...
Fission v. Fusion. The new-style "fusion" of hydrogen and the old-style "fission" of uranium have a family resemblance. Both depend on the odd and unexplained fact that atomic nuclei do not weigh as much as the sum of the individual nucleons (protons and neutrons) which they contain. It is as if a dozen apples in a paper bag did not weigh as much as the same apples spilled out on the kitchen table and weighed separately...
...power of a bomb will depend not only on its size, but on its efficiency, which cannot be determined until at least one test bomb has exploded. There may be a limit beyond which it would not pay to add reactive materials. Very large bombs might burn as nuclear bonfires, wasting much of their effect upon space...
...relatively unimportant suggestions of the Council can direct, clear-cut results be seen. The adjectives "useful" and "valuable" seem like little recompense for the amount of work put into making broader, more ambitious suggestions. Yet little more can be expected. The results of the Council's recommendations must depend solely on their merit. No more can or should be asked for than that the recommendations of the Council receive careful consideration...