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...picked the Metropolitan A.A.U. 1,000-yard run for his championship debut -and showed that he had momentarily forgotten all he knew about foot racing. He got off to a poor start, tried to make up too much ground too quickly, was caught in traffic jams and bumped off stride. Result: the former N.Y.U. miler came in third-behind Manhattan College's blond Fred Sickinger...
...remains of the faded Victorian Age, whose shibboleths of family security, personal freedom, humanity, honor, greatness of purpose, faith, liberalism and the intangible called decency had so long stood between civilized society and those forces within itself which are always at war with it. At one stride, a new age, The Age of Violence, had invested Europe from Asia to the Atlantic Ocean...
...economy had spent three years converting to war. It has had only months, as yet, to reconvert to peace. How long it would be until peacetime production reached its full stride no man knew. Miracles of peacetime production to match the miracles of war production had still to be achieved. But the first crisis of converting to peace had been overcome more swiftly than the first crisis of converting...
...wants? How would his plan coordinate "the military and the remainder of the Government?" He admitted that "other steps" would have to be taken after the unified military establishment had been set up. Navymen claimed that the Navy's proposed National Security Council made those steps in one stride. But Harry Truman did not choose to pay even lip service to any Navy proposals...
...believe, that some day a scientist somewhere-perhaps in the U.S. -might press a button that would set up an atomic chain reaction and blow up the world (see SCIENCE). He took the news, as he took all news that did not affect his own immediate, personal wellbeing, in stride. It was too big for headlines, too big for him to comprehend. Anyhow, somebody would see to it that it did not happen...