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...when he wrote: "We don't believe in miracles saving us ... even the miracle of everybody being supported by the Government. . . . We have been jolted back to problems demanding essentially the same kind of courage that faced the old Pilgrims three centuries ago. ... I know of no magic shortcut to wisdom. But I do know of a quick road to folly-the road of suppression, of fear of new ideas, of unwillingness to experiment ... of accepting our economic evils docilely. . . . We may have sinned again and again against the light, but we are still the children...
...Fuller can be sound about Tunisia eleven months in advance, he can also be very instructive about Thermopylae, 2,400 years afterwards. His Decisive Battles (Scribner; $4.50) is a layman's shortest shortcut to an understanding of war. Now, in Decisive Battles of the U.S.A., General Fuller has given U.S. citizens a similar shortcut to an appreciation of specifically U.S. talents and weaknesses on the field of battle. It is a book for the education of armchair strategists...
...which appears to be true only so long as the wheat is considered a commodity delivered free to the distillers' doorsteps. The farm bloc further contends that butadiene from alcohol is chemically a more direct process. This is true; several steps necessary to the petroleum process can be shortcut...
...broadcast service which will reflect the culture of this country and which will promote international good will, understanding and cooperation." Behind the provision, Washington observers felt, was the State Department's Good-Neighborly tact toward Latin-American autocrats. But broadcasters promptly protested what looked like a short-wave shortcut to direct censorship...
...friend Governor George Howard Earle III had anything to do with the matter, the Governor could hardly overlook the fact that the accused were his principal backers for the U. S. Senatorial nomination. Whereupon he summoned the accuser to the brownstone executive mansion in Harrisburg, ordered Mr. Margiotti to shortcut his projected grand jury investigation and dump all the evidence in the Governor's ample lap. When the indignant Attorney General declined to do so, only naming the man supposed to have passed the bribe, Candidate Earle fired Candidate Margiotti. Out with him, by discharge or resignation, went...