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...lecture sponsored by the Social Relations Society last night at Emerson Hall, Sorokin noted the disintegration of the old "sensate" culture as one of the basic trends of our age. If man can avert total destruction in the struggle between the new and the old systems of thought the "dawn of a new, great culture is awaiting the man of the future," he claimed...
...only alternatives were war or world government we were likely to have a war before we would have world government. On the other hand, I urged the most careful and prayerful consideration of any partial disarmament measures that might prove feasible and suggested a few tentative ones. Measures to avert war must be of course the deepest concern of everybody at this moment. Henry A. Kissinger Lecturer on Government
Fear of hard-boiled Hoffa was evident in the behavior of witnesses called to testify about a $17,500 payoff that Detroit laundry operators handed over in 1949 to avert a threatened strike of Teamster truck drivers. Committee investigators had scraped up some persuasive evidence that at least $10,000 of the payoff had found its way to Jimmy Hoffa. Under questioning, Hoffa conceded that he got $10,000 in "loans" from the bagmen who collected from the laundrymen. but beyond that, his memory failed him. He could not recall any details about repaying the loans, nor could he produce...
From Little to Late? But the Dutch, the Scandinavians, and above all the British, with their slowed-down economy, are less sure that they can avert a deeper slide. Tough, restrictive policies in Britain saved the pound (Britain's reserves climbed last week to $3.1 billion, highest since 1950), but they held down inflationary pressure so much that Tory leaders must now worry about the threat from the opposite direction. Like the rest of Europe, the British have so far reaped the benefits of the 15-20% fall in world commodity prices since last year. But some raw-material...
After 40 days of civil war in Lebanon, the U.N.'s Dag Hammarskjold led a task force of peace, hoping to avert destruction of the tiny country and disaster in the Middle East. In a stagnant and ugly situation, he represented a last chance...