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...Chiang Kai-shek clique by peaceful means and with the use of armed force, and that is within its exclusive competence and nobody else's." In fact, Zorin harped so much on Peking's "right" to wage a shooting war that he plainly did his argument more harm than good, and some listeners began to wonder if Russia were really eager to have Red China seated. At any rate, Zorin's intemperate approach made the U.S.'s reply all the more convincing...
Although gym instructors did not mind the numbers of students in such skill sports as sailing and dancing, the harm the team sports and the over-all picture was found undesirable. Mrs. Parker has said that she strongly favors a plan somewhat more flexible than that used in previous years. Physical education would again be required for freshman, she said, but intermurals and club activities could count toward fulfillment of thed requirement...
...Kennedy, "we will either find a flight of capital from this country to construct factories within that wall, or we will find ourselves in serious economic trouble. We cannot just sell and never buy." To convince the nation that the new trade laws would do far more good than harm-and are, in any case, essential to the U.S. role in the free world-the Administration is already bringing up big guns. Last week Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon pleaded for new trade laws as being "crucial" to the nation's financial health, warned that the U.S. will...
There is no such thing as a beneficial virus, though some do no harm. Whenever a virus has a detectable effect, it is bad. All healthy tulips are solid-colored. The tulip-streak (or "breaking") virus creates variegated color patterns of great beauty in the eye of the human beholder (and of great cash value to Dutch growers). But, says Stanley, "if you have the tulip-streak virus and you happen to be a tulip, you're sick.'' This lack of evident purpose in viruses leaves teleological philosophers at a loss. Yet viruses must have influenced evolution...
...asked him what to do." In the tones of a Delphic priestess, Darya continued: "Yesterday I consulted Lenin again, and he seemed to stand before me as if alive, and said, 'It is unpleasant for me to lie next to Stalin, who caused the party so much harm...