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...immediate goal of the puppet governments was the separation of the children from their parents. This was essential if they were to fully possess the minds and spirits of the children and raise a dedicated, zealous generation of communists. The parents, having lived part of their lives in happier days before Hitler and war, infected with the democratic notion that man can live according to his own wishes and enjoy certain basic rights, could not be trusted to teach the new communist concepts to their children. Worse still, the parents might spread this infection to their children by exposing them...
...sunny Cape Canaveral, Fla., ready to blast off. (The U.S.'s first Atlas, launched last June, was blown up in midair by an electronic signal after a fuel-system failure.) Back of the Atlas several dozen ICBMs are coming out of production plants in the race to possess a whole armory of mass-produced, operational missiles. "We have the highest priority," said Air Force Missileman Major General Ben A. Schriever (TIME, April...
Pinfold clearly cannot take much more of this punishment; he begins to behave oddly in front of the other passengers and to send enigmatic messages to his wife. But he still struggles on against his ghostly tormentors, who possess "a huge but incomplete and wildly inaccurate dossier covering the whole of Mr. Pinfold's private life." Then, as suddenly as they began, the voices cease. He had been taking sleeping draughts, and when he stopped, the voices stopped...
...government has exclusive jurisdiction over its own forces in all circumstances. The Justice and State Departments flatly deny this interpretation, hold that in law the host state has the last word; they add that status-of-forces agreements guarantee rights to the U.S. that it would not otherwise legally possess. Bricker adds that allied countries that want the protection of U.S. forces must in the final analysis accept U.S. military laws-or forego the protection. But this hard-boiled position neglects the fact that G.I.s are deployed in the interest of the U.S. as well as of the allies...
...their egotism is preferable to the deadly altruism of the '30s, whose intellectuals minded everybody's business and loved mankind with a dreadful abstract love often indistinguishable from hatred. But Lucky Jim and pals also possess the defect of their egotistical virtue. Determined not to pledge a false allegiance, they reject all allegiances as false...