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...hundred amendments to that bill had been beaten down. Paul Douglas had lost his brave battle to get rid of millions of dollars of pork-barrel items. The only effective gesture at economizing was an amendment directing the Administration to shave 10%, some way, from all non-defense items, for an estimated saving of $525 million. Thus the onus of specific economies would fall on the Administration, while Congress took the credit...
Early this week, the U.S. troops, making a brave and skillful stand around doomed Taejon, were spilling the blood of attackers who kept coming on in waves. The Reds had surprised everyone with their fighting ability and determination, but on closer acquaintance they had shown certain weaknesses, such as attacking in vulnerable masses. They also had a tendency to barrel straight ahead with their armor, using it as a sledge hammer instead of as a meat chopper. This kind of tactics permitted U.S. withdrawals when things got too hot; it also meant that the Reds were not causing as much...
Producer Stanley (Champion, Home of the Brave) Kramer's film is especially notable for avoiding the slick solution and the easy out. It is not a picture in which faith-healers or master surgeons, in the last reel, make cripples walk again. Its basic theme is courage-courage in the face of utter hopelessness. It eloquently shows that cripples cannot get along with the world or themselves-and neither, for that matter, can normal people-unless they face reality and come to terms with...
...Aldous Huxley's brittle fantasy, Brave New World, a voice whispers insistently in the ears of sleeping babies, adapting future demand to future industrial production: "I do love having new clothes, I do love . . . But old clothes are beastly, we always throw away old clothes. Ending is better than mending, ending is better than mending, ending is better...
Last week a brave band of experts and laymen met in New York City to ponder the problem. They called themselves the Foundation for the Emotionally Unstable, suggested that the term "emotionally unstable" is more enlightening and less derogatory than the old names. The foundation's first job: to collect what little is known about the emotionally unstable. Then would come research into causes, treatments, cures. Finally, the foundation workers hope, both government and private institutions can be set up to give protection and care to the emotionally unstable before their unbraked emotions get them into trouble with...