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...reverberations of the summit collapse began to fade last week, the nation could count some net gains from what had at first seemed to many to be if not a disaster, at least a calamity. Khrushchev's ranting belligerence had rallied the Western nations closer together, and at home, even amid election-year recriminations, a heightened sense of national unity was evident...
...President finished his summit report on television last week (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), people watching CBS saw Ike's face fade from the screen to be re placed minutes later by a huge missile blasting off its pad. "For centuries, the histories of earthbound men have been filled with conflict," boomed an announcer, followed by a close-up shot of a pack of Luckies...
...opponents of capital punishment were patient enough, they could just sit back and wait for it to fade away-in practice, if not on the statute books. But abolitionists try to hasten that fadeaway by argument...
...evidence that the nation that leads the world in rocketry is still inspired by the romantic ideals of 19th century "servants' literature." The film also suggests that there has been some relaxation of the puritanical morality of the revolution: the heroine errs, but is forgiven at the fade. And there is even a mild suggestion that people in Russia sometimes get tired of the canned ideas they are continually fed-the party's production slogans and political cant ("Fascist beasts") come in for some sly kidding. So do the professional women, the emancipated amazons of Marxist society...
...fair dreams fade...