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...contributions, whether or not they are conscious of it. As in the case of Japan or China, the initial stimulus to development may come from outside--in the shattering influence of a technologically more developed society. But the drive itself depends on a local leadership disciplined enough to forgo its own pleasures in order to promote advancement. This is the consideration that should inform all programs of assistance, whether monetary, technical, or human
...together they have the overwhelming majority of the weapons and an acute realization of the unimaginable destruction that they could work. In recent months the two nations have put together a draft treaty that would limit nuclear weapons to countries that already have them and ask all others to forgo an atomic arsenal. Last week, as the diplomats of 18 nations gathered in Geneva to discuss the non-proliferation treaty, a bitter disagreement broke out between the nuclear haves and the have-nots-especially those eight or ten have-nots that already possess the know-how and materials to produce...
...keep Rambler's price low, A.M.C. will forgo annual styling changeovers, thus saving retooling costs. But Chapin does not intend to economize all the way. Two sporty specialty cars are in the works, and this week three jazzed-up Rebel station wagons will be introduced. Main features: "simulated natural tan leather" side trim for Midwest and Southwest markets, "black camera grain" in the East, and "bleached teakwood" on the West Coast and in Florida...
...common for members to slip out of a performance of Faust, dash across the corridor to the clubroom and watch acts like "Papinta and Her Novel Chromatic and Serpentine Dances." The nightly vaudeville show became increasingly risque until a police raid obliged the members reluctantly to forgo Papinta for Pagliacci...
...American diplomacy today often sounds as if it belonged to the horse-and-buggy age." The President and Secretary of State "have not taken truly into account the cataclysmic consequences of the collapse of empires," continued Lippmann with a rococo flourish. "We can coexist peaceably only if we forgo the Messianic megalomania which is the Manila madness...