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...establishing the new goals for Black Power by saying that the Negro must deny the "system" which exploits non-whites all over the world. Carmichael calls the Negro fighting in Vietnam a "mercenary" who is fighting the racist wars of the American white. "The American whites are out to conquer the world; they think they are God, and we must show them that their play time is over," Carmichael said...
...scene is not science fiction. Storm-spotting sensors and the micrometeorological predictions of an orbiting weatherman are well within the reach of today's technology, giving man for the first time in his history the tools at least to tame, if not to conquer, the weather. Weather research has experienced a breakthrough in the past few years, and scientists around the world are rushing to take advantage of what the National Academy of Sciences calls "this new and enormous power to influence the conditions of human life." This year alone the U.S. Government has published some 1,700 pages...
...been U.S. businessmen eager to cash in on the aspirations of others to reach the American level of prosperity. In. fact, one major reason for the prevalence abroad of many things American is that U.S. business sees the world as a huge market and has consciously set out to conquer it with the American wealth of research and development, distribution and sales genius and powerful advertising...
What Walt Whitman called "measureless oceans of space" swelled across the background of most 19th century U.S. painting. Whether seas of grass or prairies of briny waves, the American wilderness seemed to have only distant dimensions. The way to conquer that expanse was to shrink it to human scale and bring man to the foreground of the new nation's wide horizons. Winslow Homer set out to bring the American vista into focus...
...late O. E. Rolvaag's 1924 classic Giants in the Earth portrayed the trials of a yeoman Norwegian family that strove doggedly to conquer the Great Plains, only to be consumed in the struggle. The author's son, Minnesota Governor Karl Fritjof Rolvaag, 52, has come to experience the same sort of futility. Though he has been a dedicated, longtime party worker, Minnesota's Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party last week dumped him in a bruising convention fight for the party's gubernatorial endorsement. Picked instead was ambitious, boyish-looking Lieutenant Governor A. M. ("Sandy") Keith...