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...like to remember it, but there have been long periods of such agreement. McCarthy and far many people have become so concerned with their own conceptions of what people should think that they have stopped considering what may lie behind someone's thought. They have taken the shortcut of condemnation by coincidence, and it is a cheap and dangerous shortcut at best...
Somehow though, the operators usually come up with the right answers. There may not be a shortcut to knowledge but KI 7-7600 comes close...
...Paseo had been laid out by the Emperor Maximilian in 1865 as a shortcut from downtown Mexico to his palace atop Chapultepec, three miles away. It was called the Calzada del Emperador (Emperor's Highway) until the empire's fall. Republicans renamed it Paseo de la Reforma in honor of their laws separating church & state. Later, the rich lined it with great mansions; France's best landscape designer was imported to make it look like the Champs Elys...
...great coaxial cable joining Los Angeles with Miami. But about 400 special television boosters will have to be built before New Yorkers can see Hollywood stars, or Californians can see a World Series. A Chicago-to-Denver-to-San Francisco system of radio relay towers may provide a shortcut. Without cables or relays, television's world would stretch little farther than the local horizon...
...fact was, as most of the U.S. was beginning to realize, that there could be no dramatic shortcut to world peace. What the U.S. could and would have to do was well expressed by Hungarian-born Novelist Arthur Koestler, onetime Communist and now a crusader against Communism, arriving for his first visit...