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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fission v. Fusion. The new-style "fusion" of hydrogen and the old-style "fission" of uranium have a family resemblance. Both depend on the odd and unexplained fact that atomic nuclei do not weigh as much as the sum of the individual nucleons (protons and neutrons) which they contain. It is as if a dozen apples in a paper bag did not weigh as much as the same apples spilled out on the kitchen table and weighed separately...
...relatively unimportant suggestions of the Council can direct, clear-cut results be seen. The adjectives "useful" and "valuable" seem like little recompense for the amount of work put into making broader, more ambitious suggestions. Yet little more can be expected. The results of the Council's recommendations must depend solely on their merit. No more can or should be asked for than that the recommendations of the Council receive careful consideration...
...also used it for political advantage. By prophesying ever-higher national output, the President was also prophesying ever-higher federal revenues to balance the budget and pay for the Fair Deal's expanding welfare programs. It was one thing to hope for higher revenues; it was another to depend wholly on it, while the Government jeopardized the prospect by spending, year after year, beyond its means (see below). The President's economic advisers estimated that the Fair Deal's social security and health programs would be costing $25 billion yearly by 1975. But by then, they said...
...administration had wondered when the Reds would try to take Hong Kong itself.. Last week, the five-starred flag of Soviet China fluttered ominously in Hong Kong, but the Red army was still on the other side of the border'. How long they would stay there would depend in large measure on the wisdom Hong Kong's rulers displayed in the colony's latest labor crisis...
...West, too, there were tremors. As long as the Western Communist Parties are not in power,* they depend on Moscow for survival and cannot afford rebellion. Nevertheless, Titoism, i.e., the heresy of holding one's own national interests above Russian interests, has had some limited, clearly discernible effects among Western Communists...