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...firing of Sputnik I, the U.S. has been handicapped by rockets with far less thrust than the Russian models. Forced to work with small payloads, the U.S. skillfully miniaturized instruments, gathered a library of data from space, and prided itself on the "sophistication" of its equipment. But the big, brute-power feats belonged almost exclusively to the U.S.S.R. The rockets that orbited the two Russian astronauts earlier this year had developed an estimated 1,000,000 lbs. of thrust. At the time, the most powerful U.S. rocket in operation was the 400,000-lb. Atlas...
...Power-brute power-is the basic weapon of Communism. When the cold war going gets really tough, the Communists shove aside all their books of theory, all their piously professed concern for mankind. They fall back on force and fear, as they did in beating down the East Berlin riots in 1953 and the Hungarian revolution of 1956 and as they did last week, with the pressure mounting over Berlin. To a world that was surprised as much as it was dismayed (see THE WORLD). Nikita Khrushchev announced that the Soviet Union would resume test ing its nuclear weapons, boasted...
...experience might not have shaped the philosophic attitudes of his works if the entire climate of intellectual history had not prepared an audience for him. The 20th century was primed for a philosophy of concrete things rather than abstract ideas, was ready for a psychology of sensations-for the brute fact, the tactile thrill, the stream of sensuousness that inundate the pages of Hemingway...
...with the $102.40 that they have saved up. But they are too late; The Phantom and Misty have been sold. Sensitive ten-year-olds may be assured that matters right themselves, and that Paul and The Phantom are soon outracing an uppity out-of-town boy on a big brute of a horse named Black Comet. Sensitive parents will be glad to know that the whole thing is handled with skill and taste, and that saccharinity-although Grandma Beebe does say once that Paul is "kin to the wild things"-is kept to a minimum...
...Lady Brute: That may be a mistake in the translation...