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...students we met often touched on "sore spots" in American political and social life. They asked us to explain the difference between a Republican and a Democrat, why our constitution permits the legislative and executive to be of different parties, what constitutional powers the states possess, whether our dependence upon machines was making us into unthinking robots, and what contributions America could make to the world besides financial...
...mainland cannot be compared in strategic or moral importance to what in 1938 was the most democratic and strongest free nation in Central Europe. Military experts have testified that Matsu and besieged Quemoy are not important to the defense of Formosa, which lies about 100 miles further east. They possess significant military value only as offensive bridgeheads...
...feeling into account, tried to avoid giving any impression that the U.S. was seeking to dictate to the Arab world. He stressed that the U.S. did not want "a position of leadership" in the regional economic program, that "the goals must be Arab goals," and that Arab peoples "clearly possess the right of determining and expressing their own destiny...
...Things Past, and much funnier. Powell's thesis is that blood is thicker than almost anything; his social unit is the family, not the individual. Says his fictional spokesman: "There is something overpowering, even a trifle sinister about very large families, the individual members of which often possess in excess the characteristics commonly attributed to 'only' children: misanthropy: neurasthenia: an inability to adapt themselves . . . The corporate life of large families can be lived with a severity, even barbarity...
...mysterious way absorbs them selectively through its outer wall. Tiny, mysterious bodies move through its protoplasm, and inside the nucleus reside the powerful chromosomes, which most geneticists believe are like a chemical oligarchy controlling the activities of a chemical nation. If the cell is a fertilized egg, the chromosomes possess all the information needed to build the cell into a bug or a whale...