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Riding down in an elevator he disdainfully described the lessening of international tensions since the Geneva conference as "phoney as it can be. The Russians haven't lost any of their desire for world conquest. They're just smiling and sipping their vodka...
...will canvass the possibility of Red China's agreement to U.S. principle of "no recourse to force." The U.S. also wants to explore the chances for a cease-fire in the Formosa Strait. But Ambassador Wang's Red China defines the "other matters" quite differently: 1) peaceful conquest of Formosa, 2) lifting of the U.S. and UN embargoes on trade with China in strategic materials, 3) membership in the U.N., 4) "strict fulfillment of the 1954 Geneva treaty on Indo-China," meaning tne surrender of South Viet Nam in July 1956 by the means of rigged and inadequately...
...valleys and plains have spoken and been heard. But the voice of the desert has been largely ignored. To the Hebrews it spoke of the one true God, to the Arabs of the stars and the science of astronomy. It is a stern, conservative voice, encouraging endurance rather than conquest. The desert shows man his limitations and turns him inward. When practical-minded men inquire, "But what is the desert good for?", perhaps the best answer still is: "Contemplation...
...planes were built to stand an expected stress of nine gs. It hardly seemed worth while to make them stronger. The human body, the engineers insisted (and most doctors believed), could not take greater physical strain. Not the machine but man himself appeared to be limiting man's conquest of the jet age. However the engineers tried, they could not evade, as Stapp puts it, "that one stubbornly unchanging item peeping forlornly from among the titanium rivets: man, M1, the same yesterday, today and forever; fallible, vulnerable, incurably addicted to errors, and, above all, pathetically mortal." John Paul Stapp...
...took World War II to ignite the real development of diesel power. G.M. turned out diesel trucks, tractors, power plants and locomotives by the thousands, provided the U.S. Navy with more diesel power than the entire horsepower of the prewar fleet. Since the war. the diesel has completed its conquest of U.S. railroads. Diesel locomotives now haul 86% of all rail passengers, 84% of all freight, save the railroads $600 million a year in fuel and maintenance. Fifty Class I railroads today are without a single steam engine...