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Nobody has been able to explain Eddie's sudden success beyond the fact that he somehow sounds much better in French than in English. French women regard him as a sort of combination Humphrey Bogart and Bing Crosby. Some of the girls dream that he will drag them by the hair to his champagne-stocked cave, while others like to weep at his middleaged, father-daughter sentiments. Most of his audiences, as a French magazine puts it, simply like to think of him as the fellow who dots the "i" in the verb aimer...
...policy of supporting farm prices at 90% of parity was inaugurated in 1942 to encourage maximum production of food to fill the wartime demand. In the present situation, the logical aim is exactly the opposite-to encourage less, not more production. The greatest drag on the farm economy in 1955 was created by 90% of parity, which encouraged too much production after war demand ended. The result was a $7 billion glut of farm products hanging over the market. When it was encouraging the building of these burdensome surpluses, the 90% parity plan did not keep prices...
...There seem to be in nature two opposing streams-the tendency toward organization and goal-seeking, and the tendency toward chance and randomness. The upward purposeful thrust of life, which continually opposes the downward drag of matter, is evidence, I think, that in nature there is something that we may call-to name what can never be put into words-a Principle of Organization. Not only does lift man ever higher but it provides three great essentials for his religion-: brings order out of randomness, spirit out of matter, and personality out of neutral and impersonal stuff. This Principle...
...failure is obvious: "The broken, abandoned pencil-sharpener had depressed him. It reminded him of himself. People didn't care how they treated mass-produced equipment." He was a nobody in world that seemed complex and cruel. Even at childhood his father appeared one day only long enough to drag him, kicking and screaming, into the Boy Scouts...
...heavy first stage of the rocket could consist of four clumsy but efficient, solid-propellant boosters. Since air resistance is low at that altitude, their unstream-lined shape would not pay much penalty in drag. The second stage would be a smaller, liquid-fueled rocket (1,300 lbs.), and it would carry in its nose the final rocket (200 lbs.) that would be the satellite...