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...luck must deserve it. Some men as sensible as Voltaire, and more charitable, recalled what Jesus said on the occasion of a mishap in the Holy Land: "Those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem? I tell...
...soon clear that Nehru had only been waiting for his tea to steep. On his first night in Manhattan he went before the United Nations General Assembly and poured it on-5,500 words. Eloquently, he dwelt (as he often does) on his recollections of Mohandas Gandhi: "Now, the major lesson that Mr. Gandhi impressed upon us was how to do things, apart from what we did ... how to proceed in attaining an objective ... so as not to create a fresh problem in the attempt to solve one problem: never to deal with the enemy in such...
Conversation Wing-Ding. Of all things, Mr. De perhaps loved best a good wingding of a conversation; in one evening's discussion he dwelt perceptively on Diego Rivera, the habits of alligators, Dickens, the Oklahoma legislature, fine printing, Arabian oil, academic freedom, the winter treatment for banana trees in Dallas patios. And what he most abhorred, in his vain way, was weakness-especially weakness of the intellect. Aging, the sight of one eye totally gone, he began to suffer the blood-draining anguish of aplastic anemia. He feared that somehow his mind soon would be affected, found the thought...
...justice . . . Worthy of highest praise are [the U.S. Government's] efforts, rising above considerations of party and politics, to bring the problems before the tribunal of the nations . . . Our President, indeed, has set a pattern of vigorous leadership, and has emphasized many of the points which have been dwelt upon by Pope Pius...
Overshadowed by his triumphal tour of Iowa was Dwight Eisenhower's first major political speech of the 1956 campaign, televised last week from a CBS studio in Washington. Honed to intellectual sharpness, it dwelt quietly upon a theme that has long dominated the President's thinking: peace...