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...force is a slick, tough outfit with 92,000 men and the latest type of fighter-bombers. Like the army, it is geared tightly to NATO plans. While France's Charles de Gaulle stub bornly impedes cooperation and while the British ponder their own role, West Germany enthusiastically cooperates with U.S. military planning. Symbol of this close relationship is the cluster of five military agreements signed in August, which envisions a German-American tank for the 1970s, joint development of missile cruisers and jet helicopters, plus an ambitious combined research project on new weapons...
Having spent more than an hour in a traffic jam with nothing else to do but ponder this puzzling paradox, I finally decided he must perforce be using the Smith and Wesson model 41 with the short barrel. This seems to me the only possible weapon consistent with his character...
...narrator, Ruby Drew, is "sort of dean and master-at-arms in the House of Trainees" in the Church Zealous. This theological enterprise was founded and headed by the Prince o' Light, an impressive man who took "Exercises to Induce Continence," but who nevertheless caused ladies to "ponder the holy power hidden in this fleshly armature." Ruby Drew's story is of her efforts to bring her pale damned sister Savata to the grace of Prince o' Light rather than go on covered in feathers and fleshly glory at a nightclub in St. Louis singing her theme...
...taught the changeless meaning of the three most powerful words in any dialect--justice, virtue, and love; concepts that arise out of history in spite of the fact that, or because, history too frequently denies them. The imperative task of humans teaching is, interpreting history, to lead men to ponder upon and accept the essentiality of these three words...
...fact of present European life that the Russians cannot be moved out of East Germany, except by war, a West German surrender to Communism, or some kind of settlement for which West Germany might have to pay a ruinous price. As a result, many Germans are beginning to ponder measures that fall, short of actual reunification-such as trade pressure-designed to persuade Communist Boss Walter Ulbricht to give East Germans a little more freedom and a somewhat better life...