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...front organizations not yet listed by the Justice Department. The two main lines are 1) peace, e.g., anything designed to appease Russia, harm NATO and divide the U.S. from its allies; 2) civil liberties, e.g., protest against "McCarthyism." Thousands of liberals and intellectuals are still unable to distinguish between an attack that calls an innocent man a Communist and an attack that calls a Communist a Communist...
Over the years, Americans have learned to distinguish some of the names of the men who come to the U.N. to denounce the U.S. One of the more prominent among these was Juliusz Katz-Suchy, in 1951 the churlish chief of Poland's U.N. delegation. In anti-American invective, Katz-Suchy seemed to be the match of any of his Russian or other Iron Curtain colleagues; occasionally he even spiced his Marxist denunciations of the U.S. as warmonger, slavemaster and cannibal with quotations from Shakespeare. But U.N. colleagues who knew him insisted that there were symptoms of Western infection...
Such a station, says Von Braun, could dominate the world. Every two hours it would circle the earth, and as the earth turns below it, every part of its surface would come into view. A 100-inch telescope parked in space and manipulated by remote controls could distinguish objects on the earth only 16 inches apart. This, he believes, would permit U.S. observers to report, say, every change of the Kremlin guard. Large objects, such as Russian air bases, would show up plain...
There is only one thing to distinguish the above quote from scores of similar opinions written about the University in the last thirty years; its author is the ony American buried in Red Square, Moscow. John Reed, movie biographer of the Russian Revolution, was the patron saint of the John Reed Club, oldest Communist student organization at the College. The swarm of Red and Red-front groups that followed it, and the militancy of their activities from the beginning of the Depression to the end of the post-war honeymoon with Russia spawned the Red Legend the University still cannot...
Curator Oliver would like to breed tuataras in the Bronx Zoo, but they have no external sexual characteristics. The only way to distinguish males from females is to wait for the mating season, when the tuataras, croaking, make their own decisions. New Zealand is not yet ready to release enough tuataras for this auto-selection experiment...