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...military threat posed by Sputnik is immense, immediate and sobering. But in the larger range of history, the graver threat is that the Soviet Union has shown itself capable of briefly surpassing the West at its strongest point-the ability of a free society to outthink and outdo Communism's driven men. This was a challenge to the very basis of the West's civilization itself, and its hope of organizing a peaceful world on the principles it held to be self-evident...
...stories as he staged a Texas-style roundup, corralled 61 naturopaths in 29 counties. Wilson asked for court injunctions to restrain them from practicing. At his heels in what they called "Operation Quack Quack," district attorneys were proceeding against the 61 on criminal charges (unlawful practice of medicine), possibly graver felony charges because narcotics and barbiturates were found in several offices...
...dispute is "the right of a priest charged with the spiritual care of Catholic students in a secular university to speak out in defense of the faith and morals of those committed to his care." Added Halton: "The teaching of some Princeton professors has done and is doing graver disservice to the religious and moral traditions of American democracy than all the writings of Karl Marx taken together...
...rights, not only by "corrective exercises" at home but "on-the-job grooming" during office hours. Neglected or ignored, it will all result in "dowager's hump" as a matter of course, and while this more serious condition is not incorrigible, it is certainly in a graver category than mere slump. Indeed, the whole of Glamour Expert Lilly Dache's book is a warning to women readers not to let a single waking minute tick by without giving close attention to such handicaps and correctives as (to quote from the index): "Bulging eyes, changing appearance of," "Slanting boards...
...have cheated the U.S. male (a serious offense), and you have done an injustice to two good-looking gals (an even graver offense): your cover partly obscured the faces of California Governor Knight's two charming daughters, Carolyn and Marilyn ... I think you should run a much better picture of these two young ladies . . . HENRY J. MEREDITH Captain, U.S.A.F. Mather Air Force Base California