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...speech to the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles added new terms for the two systems of economic development: "strategy of consent" and "strategy of duress." Pursuing the strategy of duress, he said, the rulers of Red China were creating a "vast slave state," wiping out China's traditional culture and values. "The inevitable waste product of economic development by duress," said Dulles, "is the crushing of millions of free spirits and their hope for a truly richer life. The important byproduct of the strategy of consent is human dignity and greater political freedom...
...wife and 16-month-old son in a handsome house with a fine view of rich, rolling countryside. Austere and outwardly meek, he buried himself in the task of running the company he had created, but he found time to serve as a Cub scoutmaster, president of the chamber of commerce, a pillar of a neighboring town's Jewish temple...
Since Morococha is not high enough for his purpose Dr. Velasquez put local volunteers into an altitude chamber, exhausted the air until the pressure equaled that at 30,000 ft., then had them take off their oxygen masks. Whereas virtually all unacclimated lowlanders lose consciousness in less than three minutes under these conditions, half the Morocochans were able to take it indefinitely and thus made it possible for Dr. Velasquez to figure out average endurance. The break point came at 32,000 ft. in this experiment; only one volunteer wore down the researchers by failing to black out. The rest...
During Curley's successful campaign for Governor in 1934, the Lampoon published a cartoon satire entitled "Curley Addressing His Puritan Ancestors." Curley demanded a public apology. "The downy-cheeked editors waited in an ante-chamber at City Hall for two hours," he recalled, "while I wrote out an abject apology for them to sign. They signed...
...Room. Enraged, the Socialists started after Shiikuma, who, hiding his face in his sleeve, had been smuggled into the chamber before the session began and had been waiting, crouched between two desks, for his cue. When Shiikuma managed to escape behind a phalanx of progovernment members, the Socialists turned on a regular Diet guard, accused him of allowing the getaway, and began strangling him. "Violent revolution," cried the secretary-general of the Socialists, "is the only road to power!" As members and their male secretaries began flailing away at one another, 300 left-wing students forced their way into...