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Concluded Dirksen: "This is a first, a single step. It is for destiny to write the answer. It is for history to render judgment. But with consummate faith and some determination, this may be the step that can spell a grander destiny for our country and for the world...
Among those disagreeing with Power were the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Their official position, as expressed in a statement approved by all of them: "While there are military disadvantages to the treaty, they are not so serious as to render it unacceptable." The senators posed a question: If the treaty had not already been initialed, would you be for it? Said Army General Earle G. Wheeler, "I would probably have come up with the same decision." The Navy's Admiral David L. McDonald claimed that it "was not a decisive element." Declared Marine General David M. Shoup...
Harvard College is presently designed to inform our common sense, and give us the means by which we can render large masses of complex information comprehensible to ourselves and our community. Our Calvinist forbears, the intended ministers, were expected to interpret for their congregations a God whose universe was governed by established laws; the world the present Harvard undergraduate shall enter is somewhat more complicated. Consequently our common sense--the basis on which we judge things--takes a good deal of time to develop...
...groom says piously, "I have brought a little gift to the Virgin." The priest accepts it gratefully: "How good of you, my son." The jeweler walks briskly out of the church, clutching a fat check from the groom and confident that, even if it bounces, the priest will honorably render unto Caesar. But the instant he is out of sight, the "priest" grabs the "bride," the "groom" grabs the diamonds, and they all make tracks for the nearest fence...
...wiped out. Thanks to the progress of science since then, the survivors in Triumph are just twelve men and women and two children (aged 9 and 12) out of the whole U.S. population. Europe, Russia and China are extinct, and only the Southern Hemisphere survives. Offshore cobalt time mines render the blackened U.S. uninhabitable for a long, long time with a million roentgen radioactive fallout...