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...countries met in Berlin for the congress tenth anniversary conference. Communism was scarcely mentioned. Whatever its military menace, as an intellectual challenge Communism had lost so much face that nobody bothered to argue about it. Instead, to the bewilderment of the delegates from the new Afro-Asian lands, the spokesmen for the sophisticated societies spent most of their time reproaching themselves or apologizing...
...preceding President Eisenhower's declaration that "a world of open societies" is a major U.S. goal, many voices in the West bemoaned the strategic disadvantages of an open society in competition with a closed, authoritarian society. In justifying the null need to send U25 flying over Russia, U.S. spokesmen repeatedly pointed to the great advantage of secrecy that Iron Curtains bestow7-almost as if Iron Curtains were something to envy. Temporarily forgotten was the balancing fact that closed societies have their competitive disadvantages, too-and open societies their competitive advantages...
...from Eisenhower's, without doing damage to the Administration's record. Nixon's solution: the timeless Washington device known as the calculated news leak. Thus a steady stream of stories trickled into the nation's press, attributing Nixon's views to "high authorities," "Nixon spokesmen," or "well-informed circles." Thus the U.S. learns that Nixon intends to speak out on his own after the nomination, that he considers Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson a political liability, that he has played a major role in getting the Administration to revise itself on old-age medical-assistance...
...Spokesmen. In Hartford, Conn.., when two of the wheels fell off a prisoner-filled paddy wagon, cops chased one wheel as it rolled down a hill, then, looked helplessly back uphill while two men picked up the other wheel, put it into their car and drove...
...Jewish people could wish that this cross of the Lord Jesus might be forgotten. All too often Christians themselves wish that they might be allowed to forget it; for when the people cried "His blood be on us and on our children!"'they shouted not as the spokesmen of any religious group, but as the representatives of the whole human race. The Christian church has never taught anything less than this...