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...want of food, medicine, and shelter which comes too late if it comes at all. And a third world war will mean, not a sacrifice for democracy, but our failure to freely choose to use our technology--unprecedented in its potential to bring benefits to the many and the distant--in a way that wins the hearts of the great majority of nations and the larger cultures which transcend the national boundaries...
...Leslie Baldwin, the other suspect. Assume a complication. Baldwin is now in line for a sensitive embassy post in Washington. Security people cannot approve his promotion without clearing up past questions. Ludley, now living well beyond the reach of punishment, must be persuaded to tell the truth about that distant act of treason...
...small trickle. And a number of the players breaking in are Beanpot alums. Harvard, B.U., B.C., and Northeastern haven't produced a Lafleur yet, but they have sent the NHL some players who are now making their marks or show promise of doing so in the not-too-distant future...
...collected Letters have lately appeared. So Poems & Sketches seems redundant at first. But for White watchers the book usefully calls attention to a pair of little-known personae: the Poet, a joyful writer of satiric occasional verse, and the Pessimist, a desperate fellow who served as a one-man distant-early-warning system for the late 20th century...
...flurry of statistics and a pile-up of 1,482 cars, "a record for eastbound parkways," and 3,000 dead. By that time Americans all take portable radios to football games to hear other sports events, while a huge TV screen behind the goal line carries horse races from distant Belmont...