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...long as the U.S. felt more or less safe, it could tolerate the idea of "coexistence" with countries dominated by an ideology the U.S. hates. But Americans are not going in for indefinite coexistence at the price they are now paying: constant dread of atomic bombing, $70 billion a year for defense, and its youth in uniform. When it began to mobilize this winter, the U.S. was not mobilizing for indefinite containment. It was mobilizing to end the present intolerable state of danger...
...other gambling house to that once-in-a-million bogeyman, the little gambler with a system that really works. Last week Mar del Plata had to call in the police to help them get rid of a horrifying 30 steady customers, who seemed to have found the dread formula for winning...
...N.Mex., went hunting one afternoon a fortnight ago. He shot three rabbits, brought the bag home to his wife to cook, sat down to supper. About four days later, he began to complain of pains in his stomach. Last week Hunter White was dead. His illness: bubonic plague, the dread, flea-borne disease which wiped out a quarter of Europe's population in the Middle Ages...
...dread to think what will happen when MT. McNiff opens his library this morning. It seems inconceivable, but a flood of volumes, perhaps caused by the end of vacation, has already filled up the entire library with returned books--all six levels of it. Bailing out all those books will be quite a problem; perhaps the solution will be to cut a hole in a bottom of the library. We wish Mr. McNiff well with...
From Rome: Italians would dread war under any circumstances, and the Korean disaster has alarmed and discouraged them. But the U.S.'s prestige does not depend on current setbacks or advances. Italians have seen too many of war's ups & downs to appraise the U.S. solely or even mainly on the Korean military record...