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...rely on the Russians to teach them how to expand and run their industry and transport. If the Russians do withdraw as promised, thousands of Big Brothers will undoubtedly remain behind -in the guise of technical advisers-to make sure that Manchuria does not stray from the Russian sphere. Kao Kang has, in effect, two bosses looking on, and so far, seems to be satisfying both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: North of the Great Wall | 5/19/1952 | See Source »

Kirk said that the people in the Communist sphere of authority don't want war, but they'll do--as always--what they're told. He described Stalin as being "feared, hated, respected, loved," and volunteered, "For my money he is the outstanding figure of the century...

Author: By William M. Beecher, | Title: Stalin Will Not Initiate World War, Says Kirk | 5/19/1952 | See Source »

...except Roman Catholics) tend to play down the rational proofs of God. "Attempts at proof not only fail of their own purpose and so do no good to religion, but . . . they positively degrade it. For their effect is to drag down the divine and the eternal from their own sphere into the sphere of the natural and the temporal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: After Further Thought | 5/5/1952 | See Source »

...role of the scientist in society has changed drastically, Conant claimed. Far from being in the "long hair" sphere while the inventor is the public idol, the scientist of the 1950's is at once theorist and inventor, in that the public expects of him the miracles it once expected from an Edison...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conant Analyzes Modern Science Trends in First Columbia Lecture | 4/18/1952 | See Source »

...political sphere, an article on "One World Illusion" is representative of the Newest Freeman's attitude. Here one Fred De Armond acidly debunks all the hopes for a better world, that were held in this country during the war. De Armond scoffs at Wendell Wilkie's One World ("the headiest conception since Galileo's), the "strange freedoms" of the Atlantic Charter, and even UN plans for international standards of diet...

Author: By William Burden, | Title: The Newest Freeman | 4/9/1952 | See Source »

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