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...long upward odyssey, man has never been confronted with anything quite like it. It is an ocean without shore, yet it bathes every nation's border. It is a military "high ground" of measureless potential, yet no nation has so far dared to exploit it. It is a resource of such proportions that man has only begun to tap it. And in all this vast province of opportunity called space, no writ runs. All the experience of quest and conquest, of discovery and exploration of the earth provides scant precedent for dealing with the promise and problems of space...
...soothes, and Forest Lawn is replete with over 700 statues, including a reproduction of Michelangelo's David, with fig leaf added. Eaton vainly offered 1,000,000 lire to the Italian artist who could paint him "a Christ filled with radiance and looking upward with an inner light of joy and hope-I want an American-faced Christ...
...assuring to everyone the fruits of his own labor," he said, "we made him a productive force of untold power. He became subject to the most exacting of all employers-namely himself." Perhaps the most notable feature of social justice, he added, is the knowledge that "the ladder upward is not so crowded that there is no room...
Having grown outward, Los Angeles is now in the process of growing upward, a shift reflected in the thrusting towers near city hall and the modern, luxury high-rise apartment houses that now line the west end of Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills and Westwood. Still, for all the city's growth, there remain many areas of country living deep inside the city limits, where hills and valleys, treed lawns and wild animals abound. Patios, swimming pools-preferably in odd shapes-and private tennis courts are numerous enough to be taken for granted...
...satisfied; he wants the government to cut back further in its spending, argues that wage and price increases ought to be tied more closely to productivity. Even so, he deserves credit for the fact that the talk nowadays is not about devaluing the lira but rather of revaluing it upward...