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...nations battle overseas, The missiles scorch, the tanks advance, While we continue at our ease With cattle-show and floral dance. Great powers must come To frightful doom: Only the impotent but gay Can hope to face the world today...
...Nobel laureates. Pauling was balanced off against Atomic Energy Commissioner Willard Libby, a distinguished nuclear chemist himself, who declared that "hazards from fallout are limited" and that nuclear tests are needed to lessen the "awful threat" of nuclear war. But the telecast's general tone was one of doom. Intoned Murrow: "There is danger in the continued testing of nuclear weapons. Scientists disagree only as to the degree and depth of the danger...
...Seven Seas is the product of Freuchen's long, dark winters in Greenland, when his mind sailed off with the big bergs "as they floated eternally to their doom." Wrote Freuchen: "Little by little it dawned upon me that there is a logical connection between everything that happens in that immense connected body of salty water that covers 71 percent of the surface of the earth." That logic led Explorer Freuchen to learn the lore he put into his book. He studied the science of the tides, waves and winds, learned about history's great sea battles...
...sooner had "Amen" sounded to the opening prayer than Johnson claimed the floor for his pretentious speech on recession. "I believe it is essential," he cried, "that responsible leaders prepare now to meet any eventuality. I should think that can be done without any foreboding prophecies of gloom or doom, or any Pollyanna predictions that prosperity is just around some ever-receding corner...
...chorus, Joe will keep the doom-crying column's accent on tragedy. In leaving his brother with the gloomy mission, Stewart presented Joe last week with the original of a recent New Yorker cartoon showing two bearded zealots, one bearing a sign reading THE END OF THE WORLD is COMING! and saying earnestly to the other: "Have you noticed they're not laughing at us any more...