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...peace- seekers, should never forgot the possibility that policy 'X' may indeed be unacceptable to our nation (solely because it ultimately would result in a painful decrease in our national security and well-being) and that another nation would indeed carry out policy 'X' if it could (because it would mean a gain in their security and well-being). I believe that the roots of the East-West conflict lie in exactly such situations--and that there are many of them. Obviously in this case an everly favorable image of the opponent is dangerous. The real problem is to find...
...Baseball's rookie-of-the-year awards went to a pair of powerful youngsters who forgot about their averages and swung for the fences: in the National League, Los Angeles' Outfielder Frank Howard (6 ft. 7 in., 245 Ibs.), 24, batted .268 but hit 23 home runs and drove in 77 runs; in the American League, Baltimore's Shortstop Ron Hansen (6 ft. 3 in., 190 Ibs.), 22, batted .255 but hit 22 home runs and drove in 86 runs...
...year in and year out, the University of Mississippi plays some of the finest football in the nation. The reason: Coach Johnny Vaught, 52, a bluff, leather-faced perfectionist who has so identified the success of his team with the prestige of the state that Mississippians long ago forgot his Texas origins and now regard him as a native...
...They [the democracies] forgot to consider the advantage that geographic position gave England in getting control throughout the world while the countries of the world were still small warring states. They have forgotten all this and have been content to sit back in complacent satisfaction and trust that the virtues of their system of government will finally triumph over the menace of barbarianism...
...support, he has no further reason to resist. The promise of even keener intelligence at last buys the child, like a sort of junior Faust. Barry's curtain speech is memorable and moving: "I was wondering about the Forgetting Chamber. If all the pictures went out, if I forgot everything, where would they go? Just out into the air? Into the sky? Back home, around my bed, where my dreams stay...