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...story of David, the spoiled shepherd poet who climbed into royal favor, betrayed King Saul and his people, took over the throne, ruled Israel in her march from primitivism to the brink of decadence, and declined among the dissensions, rapes, assassinations, and revolutionary plots of his children, then sought and found his God at last-is one of mankind's archetypical legends. Miss Schmitt has chosen to tell it not as a historical or Biblical but a psychological novel. In this task she suffers from a serious handicap: as a novelist, she is not very adventurous; as a psychologist...
During the next four years, U.S. business will enjoy profits twice as great as in 1940. But in 1950, unless drastic steps are taken by Congress, the U.S. will have nearly 8,000,000 unemployed and will stand on the brink of a deep depression. So said Commerce Secretary Henry Agard Wallace, before a closed session of the House Appropriations Subcommittee over a month...
...favor of this plan Dr. Bush and associates offered some stern arguments: despite vast expenditures on wartime research ($720,000,000 in 1944 alone), the U.S. is on the brink of scientific bankruptcy. Reason: it has used up its backlog of basic scientific knowledge. During the war U.S. scientists, drafted almost to a man for work on new weapons, gadgets, drugs, etc., have done virtually no basic research. Moreover, the U.S., unlike every other great power, has stopped training young scientists: Dr. Bush's group estimates that the war will cost the nation 167,000 potential scientists and doctors...
...Conservative Prime Ministers-Stanley Baldwin, Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill. It had seen the death of a King (George V), the abdication of another (Edward VIII), and the coronation of a third (George VI). It had seen Britain at its moral ebb (Munich and the days of appeasement), at the brink of disaster (Dunkirk and the blitz) and at the peak of its moral resurgence (when for more than a year Britain stood single-handed against the might of German-dominated Europe). In the end it had celebrated a tremendous military victory. It had endured bombardment (twelve hits on the Parliament...
...armies snapped the railroad lifeline (now at last referred to as a line of retreat) for Japan's armies in Malaya, Thailand and Indo-China. Farther north, other Chinese armies hacked doggedly at the same strategic artery whose seizure by Japan a year ago brought China to the brink. On the central coast a third Chinese force, having dislodged the Japanese from the port of Foochow, fanned north and west, preparing a possible landing zone for U.S. forces...