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...idealistic democracy learn to operate its foreign policy on a cold, calculating, day-to-day basis? Can it break the cycle of military lethargy and emotional fist-shaking, learn to think in terms of "rational and restricted purposes" and withstand the shrill cries of press and politicians who demand extremes? Says Kennan: "History does not forgive us our national mistakes because they are explicable in terms of our domestic policies . . . A nation which excuses its own failures by the sacred untouchableness of its own habits can excuse itself into complete disaster...
...hour and a half, the spectacle was over. Moscow's citizens, tired, proud and reassured, headed for home. That night, in the Western embassies, the air attaches fleshed out their scribbled skeletal notes on what they had seen in this brief afternoon, when Soviet Russia ungloved its winged fist. By last week, their reports had been studied and analyzed by every Western government...
...part and acts it. In fact, when Hollywood did a movie called Canon City, about a big escape from his prison, they got him to play the warden. For more than 20 years, Best, a onetime cowpuncher, has run Canon City's stone prison with an iron fist. He keeps it clean, serves good food, sees to it that both guards and prisoners snap to when he shows up, deals severely with any who get out of line. His housekeeper is a woman convicted of feeding her ten-year-old stepdaughter ground glass, beating her with an iron...
...Admiralty dispatched four 1,710-ton destroyers from Malta to the Aqaba area. Said the Daily Express: "Britain's patience with Egyptian pretensions . . . wins her no credit among these backward peoples. Merely contempt." A London bus conductor fumed: "It's about time we shook our fist under their noses -those damned foreigners...
Sarnoff got his first operator's job on Nantucket Island, a job so lonely that few operators wanted it ($70 a month, $40 home to mother). David used his spare time to study books on wireless as tirelessly as he had the Talmud. Soon his expert "fist" could send 45 words per minute steadily for eight hours-a pace not many could equal. After two years there, he got himself transferred to Long Island, at a $10 cut in pay, so that he could go to night school, where he finished a three-year electrical engineering course in twelve...