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...Fountainhead (Warner), as titles go, is a stunning understatement. Based on the bestselling novel by Ayn Rand, who also wrote the screenplay, it is actually a geyser of emotional sounds and ideologically, signifying only that Author Rand-and possibly Hollywood-are uneasy about the state of the world...
...sanctuary on the steps of the U.N. administration building. There, sunning himself on territory that is technically international property, he relaxed and prepared to wait until U.N. acts on his case. His equipment for the vigil: a knapsack, a bedroll, a portfolio, a portable typewriter, a copy of The Fountainhead, the United Nations World, and TIME. Said Crusader Davis: "If the U.N. can't establish the status of one person, it's plain to see that they cannot...
...from MacVeagh is his colleague assigned to Ankara, Edwin Carleton Wilson, 54, who was also called to Washington. No specialist, he is a general practitioner in the diplomatic profession, which has been his lifelong career. During more than a quarter-century divided between faraway legations and duty at the fountainhead in Washington, Wilson has acquired sureness and efficiency. Not only is his embassy the best-run in Ankara; he has a knack of anticipating State Department wishes. Perhaps most important, Wilson is willing to take responsibility for quick decisions when there is no time for consultation-a quality of great...
State had other arguments. The U.S., with its productive capacity increased rather than hurt by the war, is able to supply much that the rest of the war-racked world needs. The U.S. can be the fountainhead of international recovery. But if other nations are barred from U.S. markets by U.S. economic nationalism, they will be driven more & more to state-controlled trading, the malignancy which grew out of totalitarianism and two world wars. From Russia it now has spread over Eastern Europe, its economic virulence taking possession of politics and morals as well. It is the disease which destroys...
...Eastern Front, the Germans had been devastatingly thorough. The old, walled Polish city of Cracow remained, in a sea of flattened middle-European towns. Kiev went the way of Warsaw, and with it the onion-domed Pechersk Lavra (cave monastery) which was the first fountainhead of Russian Christianity...