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...winter had been marked by many a great victory. But the Army's primary objective, Moscow's Red Star noted, was not simply to roll the enemy back but to destroy him. In that, the campaign of the short winter had failed...
Dybenko was purged in 1938 but not the redoubtable Kollontay. She survived "deviations" which would have doomed another Russian. Twice in the Revolution's early years she quit the party. Once she started a "workers' opposition"; Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin joined forces to destroy it but did not destroy her. An old hand at Bolshevik ways said recently: "When you think of the political company Kollontay kept and the casual way she treated the party line, you realize she must have been a hell of a beautiful something to by-pass liquidation...
...Caribbean oil reserves are dwindling is old stuff and has never come true; 2) the colossal war consumption of the United Nations has no relation to the amount of oil that the world can consume in peacetime; 3) U.S. meddling in increased Middle Eastern production will merely destroy the Western Hemisphere's markets-particularly those of Good Neighbors long cultivated by high U.S. policy-without assuring excess oil in wartime...
...else has confirmed Lipman's finding, and scientists have remained skeptical. One reason is that most modern physicists believe that cosmic rays and short-wave light rays (particularly ultraviolet) would destroy any life passing through interstellar space. Professor Backman's hypothesis attacks this objection...
Thus, Backman believes, organisms riding on cosmic particles or meteorites might fly safely through celestial space. He admits they would meet a great hazard when they hit the earth's atmosphere, where atmospheric friction would heat the particles or meteorites enough to destroy all organisms clinging to them. But he believes that the atmosphere may tear the organisms away from their carriers before they get too hot. Any such free-floating bacteria which came in on the earth's dark side, shaded from the sun, might drop safely to earth. Q.E.D...