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Last week in Manhattan gallerygoers saw another storytelling title that made them look twice at the picture. Boston Painter Glenna Miller had called her portrait of a barber (see cut): All Men Strive, but Who Shall Succeed...
...domination of the world by a single sufficiently large state, provided that state holds the monopoly of atomic weapons. The threat of mutual destruction by atomic weapons of all the states that might possess them, assuming that there are more than one, makes certain that each such state will strive to acquire the monopoly. But a monopoly of atomic weapons can be secured only by gaming world domination...
...There are few earthly things more beautiful. ... It is a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see; where seekers and learners alike, banded together in the search for knowledge, will honor thought in all its finer ways, will welcome thinkers in distress or in exile, will uphold ever the dignity of thought and learning, and will exact standards in these things...
...efforts to keep partisan politics out of what he believed should be called a "united American foreign policy." Said the Senator: "Partisan politics, for most of us, stopped at the water's edge. I hope they stay stopped-for the sake of America. . . . We should ever strive to hammer out a permanent American foreign policy, in basic essentials, which . . . deserves the support of all American-minded parties at all times...
...have a chance now to rectify this difficient position. The gap in student life in this country has the opportunity to be filled by the birth of a national student union, which would strive for the very qualitics and activities lacking today...