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...tons annually, and its known reserves are 225 million tons.) But it also reflects AEC Chairman Lewis Strauss's belief that private industry must be encouraged to increase its participation in atomic-power development rather than letting the job go to public-power plants. One way to prod private business, the AEC feels, is to put out more atomic facts...
...Prod & Nudge. Yet it would be wrong to say that for the people of the satellites there was no future in protest. It is precisely their resistance that makes possible the belief that the whole Soviet regime must in time come tumbling down, destroyed by its own cruelties, repressions, rivalries, indecisions, failures. And should the Soviet empire collapse in this way, the whole world and not just the U.S. could be grateful that it was achieved without the mutual devastation of nuclear war. In the crumbling, many innocent people would be hurt, crushed, killed. Having denied itself the ultimate weapon...
...late his ideas and arrange his knowledge with a coherence which is seldom demanded by the one way techniques of papers and exams. Most of all, it can defeat the gamesman's glib use of words and facts to obscure his lack of real insight or awareness, and thereby prod him into a modicum of honest, and rigorous thinking. There does not appear to be any educational substitute for re-examination of one's assertions in a critical light. Such self-testing is seldom a part of an impersonal grading system, in which even the reader's most perceptive comments...
...draft was meant to fall on all young men equally, not to serve as a stop-gap prod to enlistment. Many young men can today avoid military service. The full needs of the Armed services were met last year with 507,000 draftees and volunteers out of a pool of one million of draft age. The pool will get larger and larger, and those drafted or volunteering will be a smaller proportion than they...
...their digging zeal, the newsmen have performed a worthwhile service. Government administrators have been put on guard; mistakes have not gone long unnoticed. The working press has helped prod the Administration into swift action in some cases, e.g., the resignation of former Secretary of the Air Force Harold Talbott. In that way the correspondents have proved a blessing in disguise to the Republican Administration, though as Sir Winston Churchill remarked, when he applied the phrase to the British Labor victory in 1945, "the disguise is perfect...