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...partly by Nikita Khrushchev's famous "wars of national liberation" speech, in which he indicated that Russia regarded guerrilla warfare as the Communist strategy of the future, the Kennedy Administration abandoned massive retaliation in favor of a strategy of flexible response. This concept dictated that the U.S. must possess the means to respond with appropriate degrees of force to any level of provocation. It remains the nation's basic military policy...
...This is mostly a matter of semantics to me. People try to separate North Vietnamese Communists from South Vietnamese Communists. No such separation exists. They are both Communists. And as far as I am concerned, as a religious man, the ideology they possess is much more dangerous than the guns they possess...
...keen susceptibility to the grandeur of nature." His name is Valancourt, and his idea of passionate lovemaking is to beseech, if Emily thinks him "not unworthy such honour," whether he "might be permitted sometimes to enquire after your health." She, almost fainting with emotion: "I will acknowledge that you possess my esteem." He: "O Emily! this moment is the most sacred of my life...
...Hayakawa has no illusions. When ETC., the quarterly review of the International Society for General Semantics, devoted a special issue to LSD and other psychedelic drugs, Editor Hayakawa chose a few acid words for acid heads. Wrote he: "Most people haven't learned to use the senses they possess. I not only hear music, I listen to it. I find the colors of the day such vivid experiences that I sometimes pound my steering wheel with excitement. And I say, why disorient your beautiful senses with drugs and poisons before you have half discovered what they...
Today there are only 600 Samaritans left, living in villages in Israel and Jordan. Every year they gather for Passover at their temple at Mount Gerizim in Israel, still convinced that they possess the true faith. They pray for the coming of their messiah, who will reward the righteous at long last...