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...pigtails. Clark's Negro servant, York, was along, and later they were joined by Sacajawea, the Indian wife of a French-Canadian interpreter. The expedition moved up the Missouri River and spent the first winter (1804-05) at Fort Mandan, the last outpost of white civilization, near present-day Bismarck, N. Dak. In descriptive and often charmingly misspelled prose, the captains recorded in their daily journals a lively narrative of the adventurous trip that, once they entered the unexplored land, included fierce meetings with "white bears" (grizzlies), narrow escapes in strange and unfamiliar surroundings, and new sights and marvels...
...that lovely fair one." At night on the plains, the ground around them shook from the stomping herds of buffalo, and once a buffalo bull bellowed into their camp and trampled two guns. The party was almost sunk by rapids and tormented by mosquitoes, cloudbursts and rattlesnakes. Still in present-day Montana, they portaged around the Great Falls, studied animals that were strange to them: prairie dogs, antelope, bighorn sheep. Then they passed the Gates of the Mountains (near Helena, Mont.) and the age-old Indian war ground at the Three Forks of the Missouri...
Herberg sums up: "The familiar distinction between religion and secularism appears to be losing much of its meaning under present-day conditions. Both the 'religionists' and the 'secularists' cherish the same basic values and organize their lives on the same fundamental assumptions." True Christian or Jewish witness, Herberg points out, may be "much more difficult under these conditions than when faith has to contend with overt and avowed unbelief...
...cruising spaceships of science fiction are beyond present-day capabilities. Theoretically they are possible, but many layers of problems must be cleared away before they can set their courses for the moon or Mars. The most difficult problems are human: how to keep the crews alive in space and how to get them back to earth in reasonably good condition. Both problems are bypassed by making man's first step toward space a satellite that carries no crew and is not expected to return to earth...
AMERICAN management would be well advised, if only for the sake of America's reputation abroad, to distinguish more clearly in its propaganda between "capitalism" on the one hand and the present-day American economic system on the other. "Capitalism" has a bad reputation in Europe and Asia, deservedly so in many cases. Consequently, to advertise and to glorify our own economic system as "capitalism," without at the same time making a lot of distinctions and sub-distinctions, is, again, to play into the hands of the enemy. The American system has a number of weaknesses and imperfections...