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...fallen short of promise, and history is quickly passing the OAS by. Castro-Communist guerrillas are striking at half a dozen nations, inter-American trade is lagging, population pressures are mounting, and peasant masses are clamoring for social and political change. In all this, the OAS remains relatively powerless to act or even serve as a catalyst in the formation of a joint hemisphere-wide policy...
...Americans served and shielded by machines at every turn, each silent switch and powerless push button was a taunt. Two of modern technology's paramount deities?the dynamo and the digital computer?had defected simultaneously. Yet Northeasterners wasted little time lamenting their betrayal by the machine. Instead, with a high sense of shared adventure, they set about the unfamiliar task of using legs and arms to help themselves and their fellow men. If in the process the 20th century American learned belatedly to mistrust the complex mechanics by which he lives, he also acquired new faith in his humanity...
Murphy admitted that none of the fire alarms in the Houses along the Charles River were functional during the powerless period. The alarms are supplied by the 550-volt hookup. Only the battery-powered emergency lights switched on, and they lasted for no more than two hours. They were not intended to be a permament light source, Murphy said, but merely to provide light for escape from buildings during fires...
...Yorkers consider the mayor's duties to be increasingly anachronistic-inevitably involved in such a flood of ceremonial and political functions that the actual management of the city has been left to a timid bureaucracy. It has become a New Yorker's cliche that the mayor is powerless to halt the city's decline. In fact, recent charter revisions have given the mayor of New York extraordinary new executive powers, which the outgoing administration did not utilize to best advantage...
...struggles which the island underwent in his lifetime, the "freedom or death" atmosphere which he describes in the book of that name, seem to have given him the faith that ours is a cosmic age. How different from the men "wandering between two worlds, one dead/And the other powerless to be born...