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Moore sees for them a choice between a retreat to traditional institutions, such as the family, or something like an Oriental despotism with its omnipresent bureaucratic apparatus...
...United States proposal is a foreign policy declaration directed to the Soviet despots who operate the subversive apparatus of international Communism," he said. "We would warn them that we are aware of their design, that we oppose it and that they cannot hope to gain a real success within this hemisphere. All past threats have been tea parties compared to this one." The Secretary then amended his resolution, spelling out that it was directed at "dangers originating outside this hemisphere." Most of the holdouts, notably Uruguay, swung to the U.S. side-although Mexico and Argentina in the end chose...
...opening address at Caracas, Dulles with cool logic coupled his case for joint anti-Communist measures ("There is not a single country in this hemisphere which has not been penetrated by the apparatus of international Communism operating under orders from Moscow") with the prospect of U.S. economic cooperation (more technical aid, continued Export-Import Bank loans, no price ceilings on coffee). The Secretary made no reference to Guatemala, the one country where Communists are gaining steadily in influence...
Although most of the observation of currents have been made at sea, the Institute has developed one remarkable instrument to predict ocean currents right in the laboratory. This apparatus consists of a large parabaloid bowl on which the outlines of the continents are raised. The bowl is set on a drive shaft that rotates it rapidly and evenly, while from four sides a battery of Kenmore vacuum cleaners blows a steady supply of "trade winds" late the hemisphere. The procedure into pour water into the bottom of the rotating parabaloid while centrifical force spreads it into an even sheet that...
...Italian-built bathyscaphe, the Trieste. Her submarine-shaped hull, filled with gasoline (lighter than water) supports a sphere two meters in diameter with stainless-steel walls 3.5 in. thick. The sphere is the only part intended to resist pressure. In it huddle the crew, surrounded by jampacked instruments and apparatus...