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...next ten years, warned the State Department last week, the main cold-war battleground may well be economic. "The leaders of the Soviet Union," said one of its experts, "are apparently proceeding on the theory that economics is the Achilles heel of the West." To meet this challenge, which in a period of cold peace might prove more dangerous than all the fleets and armies of Moscow and Peking, the U.S. needs to prove that democracy and capitalism have more to offer-in terms of freedom, justice and plenty-than the Communists ever can. What is needed is no less...
Favorable Battleground. Partnership protagonists in Washington expect to avoid the big error of the Marshall Plan-that of handing over U.S. aid on a government-to-government basis. As soon as the pumps are primed, partnership loans to governments would be quickly tapered off, and the building of dams and factories left to private capital, operating for profit. The partnership would also provide U.S. and European technicians, to teach Indians, Bolivians, Egyptians, how modern industry is run. U.S. experts believe that atomic-energy reactors might be used efficaciously to provide some of the power for industries in fuel-scarce areas...
There will be resistance to a World Economic Policy-at home and abroad. But economics, a field in which Americans excel, is a battleground which the U.S. might gladly choose to fight...
...seen through a big telescope rather than by young lovers, the moon resembles a shell-battered World War I battleground. Clusters of craters are scattered across the satellite's cracked, rugged face like smallpox scars. Many are ringed by mountains up to 20,000 ft. high; some are more than 100 miles across and four miles deep. What caused these lunar markings? Astronomers advance two theories: the craters are 1) the shells of extinct volcanos, or 2) the result of meteorite bombardments some 4 billion years...
...whole mess began, as such things will, when a fine picture, Battleground, unhappily dedicated itself "to the bloody bastards of Bastogne." This recalled the days of World War II, when patriotism excused most anything. Taking its cue from a good movie, the next was dedicated to the principle that a heavily advertised epithet would be a sure attraction, particularly when surrounded by the glamor of topical heroism. So for weeks a bass voice, in thrilling tones, kept shouting "Retreat, Hell" over the radio to herald a really inferior war picture. After Retreat, Hell came the Miracle and The Moon...