Word: farsightedness
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As it stood now, the plan called for two major changes. Above the whole military establishment, it set up the single post of Secretary of National Defense. He would have Cabinet rank-but not his assistants, the Secretaries of the Army, Navy -and Air Force. For, peace to the restless...
The Author. Budapest-born Arthur Koestler lives on a sheep farm in North Wales, is now staying at the tiny Left Bank Hotel Montalembert, where he has rewritten his play Twilight Bar (a flop in the U.S., it never reached Broadway) for a Fans performance. He refuses to identify himself...
Mankind, in general less apocalyptic, scarcely knew what to think or do. Most of them were inclined to accept the bomb stolidly-like an earthquake, an act of God. Few were even yet willing to accept Oswald Spengler's bracing pessimism about the age: "There is no question of...
"New York is a city for the farsighted. ... My glance encountered only space. . . . Our cities in Europe are built as a protection against space. . . . But space traverses New York, animates it, stretches it. . . . The city very closely resembles the great Andalusian plains: it is monotonous if you pass through on...
In the midst of angry labor debate last week, New Hampshire's Congressman Sherman Adams read the terms of the will to his colleagues. To the cause of labor-management peace, Ben Toland bequeathed 40% of his estate (10% each to the C.I.O. and A.F. of L.; 20% to...