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...American future, but not for the reason most of the spectators suspected. The special hopes, opportunities and achievements, the fears and frustrations that marked the nation's grandeur in its second century - and are destined to mark the century now to come - were to be even newer than visitors to the 1876 exposition could imagine. These came not from bigness but from a new kind of community. New ties would bind Americans together, would bind Americans to the larger world and would bind the world to America. I call this community the Republic of Technology...
...income has been redistributed so as to favor whites versus Blacks; better versus the poor; and the newer regions of the country versus...
...using such instruments as the huge 200-in. optical telescope on Mount Palomar and newer radio, X-ray and gamma-ray telescopes, modern-day stargazers have pushed the frontiers of understanding even closer to the edges of the universe and into the very cores of the stars. With increasing confidence, astrophysicists are answering some of the questions that man has asked from the time he became a rational being: How far away are the stars? What makes them shine? How long have they been there, and will they exist forever...
...Eisenhower, Vandenberg and Marshall, Acheson and Dulles−built a national consensus for responsible American world leadership based on both principle and pragmatism. The recovery of Western Europe and Japan, the creation of peacetime alliances, the shaping of the global trade and monetary system, the economic advance of newer and poorer nations, the measures to control the nuclear arms race−these constitute an enduring record of American statesmanship...
...contemporary golfer can purchase wedges with built-in air foils and much lighter graphite and titanium shafts. Newer variations include braided, "anti-torque" shafts, weighted tungsten disks to expand the sweet spot, bevelled leading edges, cambered soles, and even crescent-shaped clubheads...