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Just as interesting are the scores of engineering notions that somehow didn't get generally adopted, e.g., Uriah Smith's idea, back in 1900, of camouflaging cars with imitation horse heads, so as not to frighten real horses coming the other way. Then there was the Carter Twin-Engine car (price: $5,000), a forerunner, in a way, of the twin-engine airplane: if one motor conked out, the driver could still get home on the other...
...such processes. Oaths do not cramp real Communists, who would not be so foolish as to admit their party allegiances. Nor are oaths necessary as evidence later on against subversives, since there are already more than enough laws under which such people can be prosecuted. But loyalty tests do frighten men who might have belonged to some group classified as subversive, and even men who never considered such affiliation...
Russia. In a recent Le Figaro editorial, for example. Novelist François Mauriac wrote: It is not that which separates the U.S.S.R. from the U.S.A. which should frighten us, but rather what they have in common." Mme. Cotnareanu tried to fire Brisson, but Brisson, with the publishing license from the government safely in his pocket, stayed...
...grapple with domestic affairs and frustrate Stalin and Communism abroad, the logical reaction may be expressed in the words of the old Duke of Wellington when he inspected a contingent of new troops: "I don't know what the enemy will think of them, but by God, they frighten me to death...
...they can be made to work. Kindly critics say that Brown, Szilard et al. have been led by emotion to confuse the worst possibilities of the future with the sufficiently alarming present. Some, not so kindly, charge that the alarmists, however well-intentioned they may be, are helping to frighten the U.S. public into forcing dangerous concessions to Russia...