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...purpose, our objective there, is clear: to join in the defense and protection of freedom of a brave people who are under attack that is controlled and that is directed from outside their country. We have no ambition there for ourselves. We seek no dominion. We seek no conquest. We seek no wider war. But we must all understand that we will persist in the defense of freedom, and our continuing actions will be those which are justified and those that are made necessary by the continuing aggression of others...
From 1902 until the Japanese conquest during World War II, Vietnam was under French colonial rule. The subsistence production of the Vietnamese peasantry was used to support a class of landlords and the French colonial administration. This repression resulted in several unsuccessful peasant uprisings. The biggest, which occured in 1930, was led by Ho Chi Minh, an ardent Vietnamese nationalist who had studied Marxist revolutionary methods in Moscow...
While epee lost again, 6-3, Paul Mundie turned in two victories in that weapon. Dave Dooley and Tom Musliner, with three victories each, led the foll to a 7-2 conquest...
...philosophical monist: he believed one principle, determinism, governed the whole universe. He felt he could therefore, apply his experimental results to political justice, social welfare, and ethics. Mechanistic science was the source of whatever progress men had made, he said, "not only in physical welfare but also in the conquest of superstition and hatred, and in the formation of a correct view of life." The possible social and philosophical applications were Loeb's motivation to experimental...
What the chemists foresee is more and faster technological development. The conquest of space has opened up huge new possibilities for the industry, which is already deeply involved in creating the technology that will push that conquest further. In the not very distant future, the chemists expect to produce clothes that last a lifetime, auto oil that never needs to be changed, paints that never chip or wear, fertilizer that stays potent for several years. Their labs are already at work on chemicals that enable crops to resist frost and drought, preservatives that keep food fresh for years without chilling...