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...Korea, and let the South Koreans take over; most G.I.S agree with him on that score. But that this can be accomplished in a year's time is pure hogwash. It takes time, tradition and experience to build an army of 3,000,000, train them and equip them. It is plainly only wishful thinking, compounded of impatience and lack of foresight...
...return to the study of man, to face up once again to the "gigantic inquiry taken from the Old Testament: 'What is man that Thou art mindful of him?' . . . The immediate responsibility of American education to the United States and to human freedom is to equip the young with the ability and the disposition to think about the twofold proposition that the individual is valuable and within himself subject to law. The critical establishment of this dual statement, over which the whole world is now officially divided, entails at its center the study of history, poetry and philosophy...
...gallon jugs, moonshine sells in cities for about $2 a fifth. The deliveries are made by a new breed of rumrunner, drivers of souped-up cars which can hit 100 m.p.h. All but the amateurs equip them with truck springs in the rear to eliminate the telltale sag caused by heavy loads. The average fee for transportation is around $1.00 a gallon. Sold undiluted at the still for $4 a gallon, the juice still leaves the moonshiner with an operating profit of 200% or more...
...East, including more aid to Chiang and more force against the Communists. This, and his charge that the State Department's Far Eastern policy was "bankrupt," caused his enemies in Washington to label him "the Senator from Formosa." This political position, plus his Pacific Coast following, equip him particularly well to balance a ticket headed by Eisenhower...
...police broke in half an hour later, most of the evidence was gone. Other raids were more productive. Lyon yielded a rich crop of stolen French army seals, handy for forging identity papers. Clermont-Ferrand and Toulon produced enough nuts, bolts, clubs, buckshot and shoemakers' knives to equip a hundred riots...