Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Very often the public views a news magazine on variations between two extremes: either believing every word, or doubting every report. China is indeed a perplexing problem. Even living here for the past two years has not lifted the screen of mystery. Nevertheless I must let you know . . . that your coverage of the situation has fitted the actual situation to the last dotted...
...difference between those of us who have fought for power and those who have had it handed to them on a platter by the Red army. If you have fought, you have different ideas and feelings about your rights. I think the Soviets will have to face this same problem with Mao Tse-tung in China, and perhaps with Markos in Greece...
Treading Water. Halvard Lange would need courage and the ability to keep his feet on the ground if he were to cope with the U.S.S.R. He showed he had both when, the morning after the party, he wiped the slate clean of a lesser problem. Standing in the smoke-filled Oslo officers' club beneath a foot-high wall inscription of the Norwegian kings' motto, "Alt for Norge" (All for Norway), Lange voiced his final no to the Swedish-Danish suggestion of a Scandinavian neutrality bloc...
...many U.S. towns and villages. To conserve power, some companies have called for voluntary brownouts. In other areas, notably the Northwest and Southeast, where the power shortages are gravest, residents have been asked to cut down their use of electricity or go without. New Englanders had a different problem. There, power was so expensive that it tended to drive industries away. Were the utilities to blame for the shortage...
Tickle, Tickle. Koestler wants to show what forces cause human beings to think, to create and to destroy. As a "back door" into this problem, he begins by examining the forces that make men laugh. He shows, with the help of a number of geometric diagrams and a lot of peeking into the plumbing of "the sympathico-adrenal system," that laughter is a form of self-assertion. This section of the book also notes some pedagogical experiments in what Koestler gravely calls "the functioning of the original squirm reflex"-a phenomenon further documented in his book by laboratory experiments...