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Niebuhr's chief contribution to U.S. liberal thinking, his friends say, is keeping his fellow liberals on the path of the pos sible. "You don't get world government," he once said, "by drawing up a fine constitution. You get it through the process of history. You grow into it." The feelings of his fellow theologians are more mixed. Some criticize his failure to think and act in terms of the church or to generate ideas that would help to counteract modern irreligion and immorality. Others find his ideas of sin too grandiose, too remote from the common...
...Atomic physicists generally do not see a pos sibility of producing an atomic e-:-)'onion from the light elements (hydrogen, heHum. etc.) - in which lies the danger of some atom!c experiment accidentally blowing up the whole e?rth. Says...
...owner still complains of the week he showed Lost Horizon. "The farmers saw no sense in the damned thing, Shangri-La, snow one minute and warm sunlight with green leaves the next. Such things simply could not happen, they say - and would rather see something that is at least pos sible, like Shirley Temple...
...greatest liberals. A Lancashire draper's son and a newspaperman before he entered the law, he was King's Counsel, an M.P., a Cabinet Minister before becoming Lord Chief Justice. Kindly, diffident in private, he was sometimes blisteringly outspoken on the bench. "The only impartiality pos sible to the human mind," said he once, "is that which arises from an understand ing of neither side of the case." On judges : "The secret [of being a successful judge consists], I fancy, in two things: first, a prolonged and severe training at the Bar; secondly, a full-bottomed...
...scrap dealers are receiving more metal than they can handle. When scrap piles in community dumping grounds do not move quickly, people who searched from attic to cellar for contributions may get disgusted with the whole drive. Actually dealers are ship ping scrap to the mills as quickly as pos sible and at a satisfactory rate. But deal ers are handicapped because the publicly collected scrap requires careful sorting (about 30% of the take thus far has been metal not suited for steelmaking - non-ferrous metals, galvanized zinc, brass, etc.) and under price ceilings for steel scrap, dealers cannot afford...