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...wanted to be Taft's vicepresidential running mate in 1952. Now he is happy where he is, and has a deep sense of fulfillment. "Life," he muses, "is a matter of development or decay. You either grow or you retrogress. There's no standing still. You go backward or forward. The challenge will make you grow, if you are willing to assert a leadership and look on the challenge as something to be met and disposed of." Dirksen looks upon Election Year 1962 as another one of those challenges-to be met and disposed...
...yourself. Nor make Georgia's voters appear as ignorant or backward as your article would have readers believe. "Mudslingin' " Marv has about as much chance in a popular vote race as the proverbial snowball...
...jointed man with a wild mop of brown hair, he woos his audiences with a wide assortment of audio-visual aids: a nifty little tango step, a flinging of the arms, a flexing of the knees, and a sort of deep lumbar lean that threatens to topple him over backward. He may drift around the room, mike in hand, gazing smokily into the eyes of ringside ladies, who invariably gaze smokily back. Or he may rip open his collar, tear off his string bow tie and mutter: "Now I can really get down to work." When he sings Arrivederci, Roma...
...nations pay their workers higher wages, but the products they produce and their methods of production are different from those of underdeveloped countries. These areas must devote their resources to agriculture, the sector of the economy where new productivity is lowest. Also, since capital is very expensive in economically backward areas, methods of production will be labor rather than capital intensive. Many more hours of human effort are required to produce the same quantity of a good, because mechanical aids are not as prevalent...
...argues, even if the Russians (whose space spectaculars are the principal goad that moves Congress to the necessary generosity) should retire wholly from the space race. "When a great nation is faced with a technological challenge," says Scientist Holmes with scientific directness, "it has to accept or go backward. Space is the future of man, and the U.S. must keep ahead in space...