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Suzanne Labin writes with a hatpin. This young (thirtyish) French political scientist impales totalitarian myths and neutralist delusions, prods lukewarm intellectuals who rarely rise to the defense of democracy, or if they do, praise it with faint damns. Author Labin has small use for so-called thinkers who don the smoked glasses of a spurious objectivity and report that they can see no difference between Western freedom and Eastern tyranny except "shades of grey." She believes that it is worth restating the great central truth, or "secret," of democracy, i.e., that it is the first, last, best and only hope...
Lausche is habitually reluctant to support other politicians. He has given only faint endorsement to all his party's presidential candidates, from Roosevelt to Stevenson, waited until the last stages of the 1948 campaign before giving a hesitant blessing to Harry Truman (his support, nevertheless, is credited with swinging Ohio to Truman by a breathtaking 7,000 votes). Both Mike DiSalle and Tom Burke got a limp pat on the back from the governor in their unsuccessful campaigns for the Senate. Lausche's refusal to back "Jumping Joe" Ferguson and his openly expressed admiration of Bob Taft...
...more distant. But Pluto, a member of the sun's own planetary family, and only 3½ billion miles away, has little personality for them. The outermost member of the solar system, it shines only feebly by reflected sunlight. Even in the biggest telescopes it looks like a faint star; only its motion among the real stars and a slight fuzziness prove it to be a planet. Astronomers are not sure how big it is (probably midway between Mercury and Mars), but recently they have learned how fast it rotates on its axis...
...Johns Hopkins was to find some way of brightening the dim X-ray shadows shown on fluoroscopes. If they are brightened by pouring more X rays through the patient, the effect on his health may not be good. With the Lumicon looking at the fluoroscope screen, a very faint picture, drawn by weak and harmless X rays, is made bright enough to show up clearly in a fully lighted room...
From those who saw it as a moral question from the first, the back of the hand to you for your faint praise of China's stand in the forlorn hope of right v. expediency...