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...also see that the intransigence and ignorance of the white world might make that vengeance inevitable . . . And here we are, at the center of the arc, trapped in the gaudiest, most valuable, and most improbable water wheel the world has ever seen ... If we [whites and blacks] do not falter in our duty now, we may be able, handful that we are, to end the racial nightmare, and achieve our country, and change the history of the world. If we do not now dare everything, the fulfillment of that prophecy, re-created from the Bible in song by a slave...
After bestowing this bouquet on his hosts, the General flew home in a mood to make sure that France's new union with Germany does not falter at the altar. In a meeting with his Cabinet, De Gaulle declared that France could maintain the respect of Germany and its position as the "leader of Western Europe" only by ensuring that the nation does not relapse, after his death or retirement, into "the precarious and disastrous condition that it knew for 50 years" of unending political crises. To correct what he once called "the badly constructed framework" of the Third...
...backlog of business, which has delayed deliveries and produced a more relaxed spirit in hard-selling Berlin executives. But a deeper reason is long-range anxiety over Berlin's fate in the cold war. While the West would not permit free Berlin's economy to falter badly, one West German banker admits that "the lack of security in Berlin makes investment by outsiders intrinsically unattractive...
More could be adduced from these figures. For example, they call into question assumptions I know to be current--that advanced standing students falter badly in their first traumatic year, or that they fade badly in a premature year of thesis or generals. In many ways the tables tend to provoke discussion on a false premise, since theoretically we hoped these students would do as well as other undergraduates, and have no particular basis for expecting to do better...
...offset press units, only four were ready; and those four, now taxed beyond capacity, began to falter. About 15 miles away, in General Electric's Information Processing Center, an electronic computer, programmed to read and sort the Journal's classified ads at high speed, transmitted indecipherable intelligence over the telephone tie line. A crew had to be hastily recruited to set ads by hand. Then there were not enough compositors left to cope with the late news. The midnight copy deadline came and went, unmet...