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DURING the turbulent fortnight preceding President Eisenhower's declaration that "a world of open societies" is a major U.S. goal, many voices in the West bemoaned the strategic disadvantages of an open society in competition with a closed, authoritarian society. In justifying the null need to send U25 flying over Russia, U.S. spokesmen repeatedly pointed to the great advantage of secrecy that Iron Curtains bestow7-almost as if Iron Curtains were something to envy. Temporarily forgotten was the balancing fact that closed societies have their competitive disadvantages, too-and open societies their competitive advantages...
...nervous about going on?' we inquired . . . 'Should I be?' Ike chuckled . . . 'All of us on the air,' we told him, 'get a little butterflyish as airtime approaches. Don't we, Mr. Montgomery?' . . . meaning Robert Montgomery, the President's fried and null director . . . 'you have a punchy line in your speech,' we said. 'The one about having to be suspicious about enemies, who used peace negotiations as Pearl Harbor fell' . . . 'I'm afraid,' the President said, 'the speech is too long, 22 minutes...
...scarce, why not subdivide the air?" His first 46-unit co-op apartment sold out seven hours after he advertised it, and he had enough investors left to finance a second 32-apartment coop. He went on to build the 200-room Oahuan Tower, the 60-room null and the 650-room Kalia off Waikiki Beach. His most ambitious project, the Tradewinds, is scheduled to become a $15 million, ten-building hotel complex with 1 ,000 apartments...
...programed flight, but the first complete test of the system's complex navigational, guidance and fire-control equinment was a success. Fort night ago, the Navy revealed, a dummy ("Dolphin") missile was ejected successfully by the submerged atomic sub George Washington, which will attempt an underwater, null Polaris shot in July...
...deal more bite. "We want a final period put to the Second World War by a peace treaty. If our efforts remain in vain, we will be led to conclude a unilateral treaty of peace with the Democratic German Republic." And what of Western rights in Berlin and the null allied garrison? Khrushchev acted as though the garrison was the only instrument of Western power, and his venom matched his error. "If they are to prepare for war," he bellowed, "I wish they were half a million. It would be that much easier to leave them there and encircle them...