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Most China experts question whether the assumptions on which present U.S. policy is based remain realistic in the '60s. Some U.S. officials still talk as if China were both ready and willing to conquer Asia. Is it? Despite its nuclear power and its formidable manpower reserves, China is one of the world's poorer countries (estimated annual per capita income: $100, compared with Japan's $1,100). China's recent Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution and the upheaval it caused may put domestic recovery ahead of foreign adventure for some time to come. Even before the Cultural...
...nucleus of a cell and unlocked its secrets, probed deep within his own psyche to dissect its motives, even learned to uproot a heart and replant it in the body of another. He has done much with his own world, good and bad, but he has not learned to conquer it-or himself. Yet it is in his nature, even while he struggles with the challenges of new frontiers, to keep on creating ever newer ones. Last week the latest frontier in man's long journey through history moved more than 250,000 miles from the earth into...
...play not marches for accepted victors only, I play marches for conquer'd and slain persons...
...crowds came for the music and excitement whether they knew him or not. There was a noisy tribute to this anonymous brother just as there had been for the great trumpeter "Papa" Celestin several years before. "I play not marches for accepted victors only, I play marches for conquer'd and slain persons...
...weighed the consequences. It may not have occurred to them that socialism or any other alternative to private enterprise would certainly mean the shouldering by Government of huge new burdens. Our giant corporations would not disappear. They would simply be merged into unimaginably vast Government ministries. And bureaucracy would conquer...