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What the U.S. Government could afford to spend would depend, finally, upon what the U.S. earned. If good times were ahead, taxes would roll in and even the present high cost of government would be bearable. Before his budget went to Congress, Harry Truman sent up his economic report (required by the Employment Act of 1946) as background material...
...would be more rational and less instinctive, less subject to sexual and parental emotion, to rage on the one hand and to so-called herd instincts on the other. His motivation would depend far more than ours on education. . . . He would be of high general intelligence by our standards, and most individuals would have some special aptitude developed to the degree which we call genius...
...Better World." Just how U.N.'s Rockefeller Center-style quarters would fit into the hodgepodge of midtown New York would depend on U.N.'s Trygve Lie, charged by the Assembly with preparing an estimate of costs and requirements. An international competition for architects would probably be held. Whatever the shape and form, Manhattan's East Side was in for a face-lifting...
Difficult Primltivism. None of the people described are the "carefree savages" idealized by civilization-haters. The cultures are primitive, but the lives of the individuals are anything but simple. Since they lack effective agriculture, they have to depend on nature's stingy gifts, laboriously gathering everything even faintly edible. They hack down palms, make sawdusty flour out of the pith. They build brush dams across streams to trap fish. They pick up tiny seeds, break hard nuts with stones. They eat skunks, grasshoppers, alligators, armadillos...
...measures for disarmament and a vetoless inspection, control of atomic energy, acceleration of the establishment of an international police force, and a balanced, progressive reduction of armed forces. The resolution was only a declaration of policy, and responsibility for its implementation rests with the Security Council. Its success will depend on the sagacity and reasonableness of the Big Three; but many procedural difficulties and ancient road blocks were removed by the General Assembly's action. Well intentioned, sincere efforts for peace will encounter fewer snags as a result of the forth-right, open discussions that have just ended...