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Butler held as the crux of his argument that government payment of doctors on the basis of how many patients they serve will tend to make them keep all of them as well as possible, while under the present system of "fee for service" the doctors thrive on sickness...
...Governor Thomas E. Dewey issued a statement backing the full appropriation. So did California's Governor Earl Warren. Presidential candidate Harold Stassen rushed to Washington to plead with Congress not to "tarnish the national honor of our country." Secretary of State Acme Marshall declared that "the crux of the whole affair [is] confidence in the integrity of leadership of this country...
...paradox of man's freedom and finiteness is common to all great religions. But the Christian approach to the problem is unique, for it asserts that the crux of the problem is not man's finiteness-the qualities that make him one with the brute creation-but man's sin. It is not from the paradox that Christianity seeks to redeem man; it is from, the sin that arises from the paradox. It is man who seeks to redeem himself from the paradox. His efforts are the stuff of history. Hence history, despite man's goals...
...crux of Alsop's proposition for world peace was power politics. "We have power, economic and technological strength more gigantic than our eastern adversary," he claimed, and advocated hog-tying Russia's expansion policy by securing the friendship and economic control of her neighbors by means of the Marshall Plan...
...crux of the plot appears soon after. Parks is grabbed as a hostage, is recovered by his own clan who are then ambushed after they have just thrown a shake-and-be-friends banquet for the rival clan (following all this?) Parks has just time enough to grab his sword and change in his photogeuie, canary-yellow fencing jacket before he sets matters right. Tempers have quieted down in the end, but the colors are still blazing...