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...impromptu phrases at his news conference last week, the President of the U.S. gave a fresh meaning to the nation's foreign policy. Dwight Eisenhower was talking about his plan for an atom-powered merchant ship to dramatize his "atoms for peace" program. With intense feeling, he exclaimed: "If we are going to win this war for peace, let's stop talking about 'cold war.' We are trying to wage a war for peace...
...Witcutt, son of a Staffordshire merchant tailor, was studying law at Birmingham University when the attraction of G.K. Chesterton's anti-industrial theory of "Distributism" led him to Rome. Distributists took one look at the misery of the workingman and concluded that large-scale industry should be abolished in favor of a social-industrial structure more like that of the Middle Ages...
...Joint Congressional Atomic Energy Committee turned down President Eisenhower's request for an atomic merchant ship...
...began two years ago when the trading firm of Les Fils de Basile Obegi of Syria placed an order with a New York export house for 100 four-wheel-drive jeeps (which cannot legally be exported to Iron Curtain countries). The jeeps' purported destination was Beirut, where a merchant named Jean Maghamez supposedly wanted them for local farmers. Willys-Overland Export Corp. of Toledo cabled its Syrian dealer, Levant Motors, to investigate the $150,000 order. Levant Motors discovered that Consignee Ma-ghamez was just a front man, and replied that it suspected Les Fils de Basile Obegi...
...learning how to use its supply. For every one of its 165 million people, the U.S. uses an average of about 1,500 gallons of water every day (v. 600 gallons in 1900). All told, the nation consumes 231 billion gallons daily, more than enough to float the combined merchant fleets of the entire world; by 1975 consumption will soar to 402 billion gallons a day. One of the nation's top water experts, Army Engineers Chief Samuel Sturgis Jr., warns that the U.S. had better head off a shortage without further delay...