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Conclusion. The U.S. advantage in preponderance of bombs is less important than the strategic framework within which the bombs might be used. In spite of its lessening atomic lead, the U.S. would have a better chance of winning a war in 1953 than in 1950, provided Western Europe were vigorously defended by 60 good European and U.S. divisions. Under these circumstances the free world could reasonably hope that the Kremlin would suspend its present aggressive drive. Only under such circumstances would talk of the "peaceful coexistence" of the free world and the U.S.S.R. begin to make sense...
...situation, in some respects, was comparable to building an expensive new house appointed with everything but electricity. Foundation, overhead, framework, maintenance swallowed up the bulk of the costs. Comparatively small expenditures after that were what provided real utility...
...framework of the price support program, the plight of the farm workers can be alleviated. It should be made a condition that any farmer availing himself of the federal price support must adopt a farming program which includes, among other things, all-year-round farming activities through the raising of overlapping crops or combination of crops . . . Under the price support, it should be a must relationship between the employing farmer and the hired hand that the latter . . . be covered by the social security compensation insurance...
Temperamental Artist. Not all spiders make prey-catching webs. Of the web-makers, the genus Aranea is the master weaver and engineer. Aranea spins the familiar but complicated "orb web" a large number of segmented rings on a framework of 25 to 35 spokes. Although the typical orb web may have 13,000 or more tie-lines, the spider makes a new web every day, and, like a temperamental artist, never deigns to do repair work. She* puts glue on the silk to make it sticky. To prevent quick drying (or for some other reason), the glue is concentrated...
Atlantic Coordination. Neither London nor Washington had responded with enthusiasm to French Premier Georges Bidault's recent proposal for a supreme "Atlantic High Council." But all wanted something less grandiose that would pull together, within the framework of the North Atlantic Treaty, the varied work of the OEEC, the Council of Europe, the Brussels Treaty powers and U.N. agencies. A North Atlantic coordinating committee, composed of ambassadors and with a small secretariat, might be the outcome...