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...Static. In Philadelphia, an annual Friends report, chiding local Quakers for too much talk and not enough meditation at recent meetings, maintained there was "no chance for God to get a word...
...Communism of Soviet Russia and its satellites represents today the active, dynamic element and the free world represents the static, passive element . . . The U.S. . . . can be destroyed by forces that, in themselves, seem weak-if those forces are active and if we are passive...
Against this optimism is the fact that U.N. forces have remained at "static" strength (about 450,000 troops), while the Communists have gradually built up overwhelming numerical superiority (about 900,000 troops), steadily swelled their air force (to at least 1,200 planes) and brought up mountains of equipment and supplies during the relative hiatus. If they chose to launch a spring offensive, Van Fleet conceded, they could hit the U.N. far harder than before. "But the chances that it will come are quite small...
...where lack of it is so dangerous." In an address at Princeton University, Dulles pressed the thought further: "The attitude of the free peoples is almost wholly defensive . . . The Communism of Soviet Russia and its satellites represents today the active, dynamic element and the free world represents the static, passive element... The U.S. ... can be destroyed by forces that, in themselves, seem weak -if those forces are active and if we are passive...
...Father Cummings lay dying, the U.S. Bureau of Mines, by a coincidence, issued a set of recommendations to reduce the hazard. Wool blankets, plastic sheets and most synthetic fabrics should not be allowed near an anesthesia machine, the bureau said, because of the danger that they will generate static electricity and cause a spark. Cotton should be used instead. Doctors and nurses must not wear wool trousers, nylon gowns, or rubber-soled shoes. Tables, machines and stools should have non-insulating feet, to conduct static electricity to the floor...