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...foreign policy of President Truman and Dean Acheson has marked a new era. But let not those who follow this Administration underestimate or belittle the potential power and influence of this Continent. In all likelihood, the fight with Communism will be decided here...
...Antonio, Fred Newhouse, 24, and father of two, had a badly damaged kidney after a collision between his milk truck and a bus. Newhouse himself was a Witness, as was his wife, so there was little likelihood that a court could step in. Newhouse's father (no Witness), his mother (a practical nurse), a Methodist minister, a rabbi and dozens of friends tried to talk him out of his stand. They failed. A transfusion, he argued, would mean "spiritual death...
...even worse over Egypt. The State Department clumsily proposed to Great Britain that she surrender the Sudan to Egypt in return for Egypt's joining the West's Middle East Defense Command (TIME, Oct. 22). Britain bristled: such an idea, replied Whitehall, had "absolutely no likelihood" of being accepted "whatever the pressure." Uncle Sam, all thumbs, gave up, said weakly: "It was only one of many ideas for the solution of this problem...
...More Likelihood in Youth...
Third, assuming that thinking somewhere at some time is desirable, there more likelihood that the individual we think in his youth than later in life. If he does not begin to think then, he may never think. After graduation he finds himself more and more committed. His mind becomes more and more dominated by the opinions of his professional business associates, by his religion, economic class, or political party, or by the agencies of mass communication...