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...from starting ... at scratch in 1945," says the Rand report, "the Russians should not have been, by that time, too far behind the knowledge and skill that had been achieved in the United States . . . Instead of being surprised that the Russians got the atomic bomb as early as they did, we should perhaps have been surprised that it took them so long...
...does, but her spitfire independence ("Do not let me bend my head, O God, ever") turns their love affair into a contest of wills. Jean is an urbane Don Juan, and Hélène wants to scratch her initials in his hide so deeply that they will never heal. Yet even as their love grows in intensity and understanding, they are not above betraying each other with other lovers...
...earth's most challenging peaks, few Asians consider climbing a sport. To them, the exploits of such men as Sir Edmund Hillary are part of an outlandish philosophy; they would never climb Everest simply "because it is there." Often enough in the high Himalayas, devout Buddhists scramble and scratch their way to the top of middling high peaks-but for a perfectly practical reason: those who make such a pilgrimage earn unlimited credit in the eyes of their gods...
...faces before him. "This is the mighty theme of a nation building and remaking itself," he cried. "We had something worthwhile in our first Five-Year Plan and we made good to some extent. This second Five-Year Plan is the real beginning. We have to start from scratch...
...Scratch is the word for it. India's vast country has 300 million illiterates, 80% of its population; in its 500,000 villages there are scarcely 250,000 schools. India has almost as many unemployed as the U.S. has jobholders (68 million)-and the number of job seekers rises by 2,000,000 every year. Yet in its first Five-Year Plan India managed to boost food output by 18%, to make itself (given good weather) largely self-sufficient for food. Across the Himalayas, where a rival drama of planned advance is being enacted, the totalitarian techniques of Chinese...