Word: reasonably
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Those who would eagerly label as "appeasement" every alternative to the militant obstinacy of brinksmanship must not share "Lippmann's belief in the ultimate ascendancy of reason...
...current objective of Soviet foreign policy, if performance is a guide, is to achieve a division of the world that is variously called "coexistence," "disengagement," or just "facing the facts." Likely reason: by gaining world sanction for its past conquests (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Hungary, China, Czechoslovakia, etc.), Communism robs the free world of any forceful reason for the counterchallenge that ranges from forward military bases to nonrecognition...
Public opinion backed tough measures. Reason: in weed-clogged ditches, in police-station cellars and in shallow, unmarked graves, hundreds of Cuban families were searching for the bodies of their rebel sons, slain by the cops. One abandoned well in the western province of Pinar del Rio yielded 13 decomposing corpses...
Astronomers can hardly wait for the day when these first space scouts are launched. For oddly enough, they know less in many ways about the planets, the earth's neighbors, than they do about far-distant stars. The reason is that stars shine in their own light, revealing much about themselves to astronomers' spectroscopes. The solar system's planets are visible only in the reflected light of the sun. Their spectra carry little firm information, and the details that can be seen on their surfaces are clear enough to excite but too vague to satisfy human curiosity...
...Venusian atmosphere contains carbon dioxide. This information does not mean (as many science-fiction writers seem to think) that Venus under its clouds is covered with lush jungles. Earthside plants need carbon dioxide, but their flourishing presence on earth is the reason why the earth's modern atmosphere contains only a trace of CO2. This abundance of carbon dioxide in the Venusian atmosphere is excellent proof that the planet has no earthlike plants...