Word: super
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Defending the cup, which it won last year at Princeton against the same three teams, the Crimson will meet especially strong opposition from M.I.T. and Princeton. The Engineers, super-inspired by their surprisingly impressive victory over Yale last week, are going all out to get Harvard, the crew M.I.T. hasn't beaten in ten years...
Nations, too, seek models of competitive success. And in the post-war world the two most influential models are those of the two super powers whose histories read like Horatio Alger stories--the U.S. and U.S.S.R. Hence there is a tendency among lesser nations toward emulation of the two Cold War antagonists. This tendency should not be confused with the passing infatuation which the ex-colonial states have been showing for the trappings of nation-hood. The familiar insistence of every infant state that it be provided with an army, an airline, a steel mill, and a vote...
Despite their self-proclaimed differences, the United States and Soviet Union present a common image of national powers. Both are super-states with continental markets, large populations, and gigantic industrial firms. Both give the impression that strength somehow lies in size and massive industrial organization. Both, in short, suggest that an integrated region is the structural key to might...
...suggest that regionalism will culminate in a universal merger movement would be premature. The world is far from the Orwellian prediction of a globe divided into three continental states. But surely the unconscious emulation of the super-state pattern perceivable in regionalist unions will have more influence on world history than boiling soap had on the life of Mark Twain...
Real Problem 1: Given two super-powers (U.S. and U.S.S.R.) in international competition. The U.S.S.R., which has given highest priority to science education, wins world acclaim by launching Sputnik I. Question: How does the U.S. respond...