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...against this background that we must appreciate the impact upon America of the launching of the two Russian satellites. " Americans, he said, took the Russian success as "a blow in the heartland. It will be a long time indeed, before the American people can be brought to forget what they regard as a deep humiliation." So saying, Nye the observer waddled, without fear, from his typewriter...
...Girl Scout Age. This saloon McNulty celebrated and helped make famous -until it became blighted by literary admen: "Nobody goes there any more; it's too crowded." And, not far from Costello's, in the heartland of McNulty's world, half a block of stores has recently been razed to make room for the cleanly headquarters of the Girl Scouts of America, who will have no difficulty at all in identifying the trees. It is all very sad, but McNulty's work remains to lighten the loss. His art was as well-hidden and as obvious...
...this sort of strategic situation, the civil rights forces are bound to keep coming on, this year, next year, year after next, inexorably. Even now Dick Russell's rearguard is fighting from a line set back more deeply in the Southern heartland than ever before. For all of his brilliant strategic success in breaking the back of the civil rights bill of 1957, some sort of civil rights bill, however scrawny, will almost surely be enacted one day soon, and the fact of the passage may, in the long perspective of history, count for more than the substance...
Behind the great arc that stretches from Shantung province on the Yellow Sea to the southern coast of Kwangtung province on the Gulf of Tonkin, the vast heartland of China was once more beset by its most ancient of enemies-flood and famine. From Kwangtung alone, refugees streamed into the refugee-packed British Crown Colony of Hong Kong at an officially counted rate of 100 a day; how many others came across the Communist border uncounted, no one knew. In the nearby Portuguese colony of Macao, officials estimated that 20,000 Chinese refugees had fled their homeland in the past...
...sided disarmament of the West: a reduction in forces that would leave the U.S. with too few men to keep up its NATO commitments, and a scheme for setting up ground control posts that would bring every part of Europe and the U.S. under surveillance-except the Russian heartland...