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...thereafter found itself unable to use that atomic stick in a way which prevented the Soviets from pursuing their interests on a global scale. (The Cuban missile crisis is a single notable exception.) During its period of "inferiority" the Soviets consolidated their hold on Eastern Europe and gained the friendship of much of the Third World, there is no reason the U.S. should not be similarly capable, even if its nuclear position is considered by some to be one of inferiority, however vague and irrelevant that concept is when the U.S. has 9000 nuclear warheads and the tried to carry...
...American aphorists, no doubt, but also the most relentless ("A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds," "Traveling is a fool's paradise," "... fired the shot heard round the world," and even the 1960s' dreamy license, "Do your thing"). His fatally worthy subjects (Self-Reliance, Prudence, Friendship) have oppressed generations of eighth-grade English classes. People should probably be forbidden the use of Emerson until their 30th birthday. He gets better as one gets older. Inside the marble, there is a wonderful writer struggling to escape the stone reverence with which he is usually imposed on adolescents...
ENGAGED. Mary Cunningham, 30, vice president for strategic planning at Joseph E. Seagram & Sons; and William Agee, 44, chairman of the Bendix Corp., and her boss until 1980, when she resigned after talk that he had promoted her because of their friendship...
Ironically, the new government did not request the revived military aid instead, it was offered by the U.S. in a gesture of friendship to Rios Montt According to Congressional sources the Guatemalan Junta is more interested in economic assistance such as construction equipment...
Casting the role of the black slave Jim required more ingenuity. Govorukhin searched the universities for likely black students from Ethiopia, Angola or Mozambique. He finally selected an Ethiopian named Behailu Mengesha, who was studying at Moscow's Patrice Lumumba People's Friendship University. Mengesha, who is now back home in Ethiopia, resisted pressures from friends, who advised him that playing the role of a slave would be demeaning...