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President Eisenhower: "We are working at top speed on this whole thing . . .But I do want to point this out. It is a little bit of a paradox to urge that we work just as hard as we know how on the guided missile and that we stop all research on the hydrogen bomb, because one without the other is rather useless . . .Research without test is perfectly useless...
...statesmanship is to replace political expediency, legislators must seek a less partisan approach to the paradox of poverty in the midst of plenty. To this end, the President should establish a special commission to investigate the causes of agricultural dislocation and suggest possible solutions to the farmer's economic difficulties. Formed of agronomists, economists, political scientists, and representatives of labor, management and farm groups, such a commission would be empowered to evaluate methods of agricultural production and distribution in the light of the nation's long-term needs...
Black Cloud. The paradox of the whole affair was that the storm, despite its beginnings, had turned into a phenomenon so real that it had fooled many a Republican. G.O.P. Chairman Len Hall was one of the first to see it coming and tried to head it off; immediately after Ike announced his intention of running for a second term, Hall hailed Nixon as a "great American," adding, "and a great American is, in my opinion, a strong candidate...
...railroad station to get a ticket." So he would use Intourist. Most people would find themselves quite dependent on this organization, which in many ways is unfortunate, since it is virtually impossible to obtain anything more than a vague impression of the country and people with its help. The paradox is that without it, travel in Russia would be impossible for most foreigners. Malia was lucky he saw so much
Morton G. White, professor of Philosophy and one of the committee members, expressed his disappointment with education's greatest paradox. He stated that "although the teaching profession is of indispensible importance, its reward is slight in proportion to its value." White hoped for an increase in the profession's average wage and felt that the interested student "should be made to realize how important the work is in the modern world...