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...outlined three points that the U.S. should follow to achieve peace in the world. The country should first recreate a power equilibrium to offset the vacuum left at the end of World War II when Germany and Japan ceased to threaten Russia's borders...
...world today cannot keep a happy equilibrium with my gossip and the atom bomb," announced Veteran Telltale Elsa Maxwell, who had decided to give up her column for good. "What is gossip after all but unkind things said, usually not even based on fact or the truth? I can't add all that trouble to those that already exist, so I have taken up my music [she used to play the violin], my best old, old friends and the quiet peace of quiet living...
...twofold: first, to win in Korea against the only enemy so far in gun sight-the North Koreans. Second, never to forget the possibility of all-out war, while at the same time trying to maintain some fiscal equilibrium...
...planning and policy are not so much wrong as incomplete . . . From appeasement, we have reached the uneasy turning point of containment. But containment . . . cannot be a stable equilibrium. From containment, we must either drop back to appeasement, a deal (or what would seem to be a deal), or go forward to the offensive [aiming at] destruction of the power of Soviet-based Communism...
Harris suggests that some colleges might re-establish their financial equilibrium by consolidation of schools along the Harvard-Radcliffe line and conversion of many four-year institutions into junior colleges...