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History is littered with the wrecks of great enterprises that failed simply because of their initial success-because, as things get easier, free peoples habitually slacken off. The Soviet technique at Geneva was to see to what extent outward bonhomie could save them from having to make real alterations in course...
...rise is not going to be unbroken. The FRB expects the pace to slacken a bit in the next few months, slowed by a "leveling off" of steel and automobile output, then finish the year with a rush in the fourth quarter...
Even after two years of de-emphasis, football is still dangerously susceptible to the combined pressures of bigness and popularity. This year is no time to slacken requirements. Even if the NCAA in its forthcoming meeting returns to two-platoon football, the Ivy colleges, now entering the threshold of legitimacy, should limit substitution, just as they should limit practice sessions...
Dean Gitter, with un-sparkling competence, did some blustering as the Yugoslav colonel. But his main role was that of director. He did a good job, excepting only the spots in which he unfortunately choose to accentuate the play's pointless violence. Certainly the pace did not slacken at any point under Mr. Gitter's hand. For only brief moments, during which Mr. Gregory and Mr. Aaron decided that communism is basically evil, did boredom creep onto the stage...
There are many temptations to slacken defense. The same climate of opinion that supports sacrifices for preparedness reacts against civil liberties, for fear cannot draw careful lines. But if a choice must be made, Russia is still more dangerous to liberty than McCarthy and all his followers. Moreover, a number of social reforms--in housing, power, and health--have to stew while a defense establishment is kept up. But dollar for dollar it is worth it. For the temporary relief it would give them from anxicty and taxation, America and the West cannot afford to abandon the carefully planned policy...