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...hatted French nobleman named Count de Dion (later to be immortalized by having a racing rear axle named after him), who drove his steamer from Paris to Rouen, a distance of 79 miles, at an average speed of 12.6 m.p.h. Daredevil De Dion could not possibly have guessed the contagion he was spreading. Other races followed quickly-to Bordeaux, Marseille, Dieppe, Nice, Trouville, all the way across the Continent to Vienna. The British were a little late joining the fun: in the early days, by law, British motorists had to be preceded by men on foot crying their approach...
Finally, the hope of democracy lies in the contagion of the idea itself. Although democracies like ancient Athens and between-wars Germany have voted themselves into the hands of authoritarians, not a single nation has ever freely voted to turn itself over to Communism. "It is a terrible truth that it costs more strength to maintain freedom than to endure the weight of tyranny," wrote Simón Bolivar. That is probably still true. But times and attitudes have changed immeasurably, and it is possible that in a modernizing, prospering world, there ultimately will be more people with more strength...
Large and small, the signs of change are everywhere. So far, only Bulgaria has fully escaped the contagion of restiveness sweeping Khrushchev's once-docile satellites, symbolized by Rumanian Leader Gheorghiu-Dej and Yugoslav President Tito's collaboration in a giant power and navigation project inaugurated last week on the Danube River...
...Peru's foremost historian, tried an answer: "Our people, especially our lower classes, are full of tensions and frustrations, dark, pent-up passions and angers. This situation is becoming acute under the impact of the population explosion and the poverty of the masses. Add to this the Communist contagion. These people have lost some of their faith and hope. When this happens, then sometimes people will behave more like brutes than...
...virus of his impulsive truth telling. He recognizes that his devious life had put such a premium on lying that he often felt like a stand-in character for himself. Further, he had developed over the years an intense desire to be known and understood fully by others. The contagion of honesty proves as ruinous in business as in love...