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...hero, "formidable for guile in peace and war," "the great tactician,'' "skilled in all ways of contending," "all craft and gall," admired as much for his divinely inspired chicanery as for his handiwork with spear, bow or tiller. Although favored by Pallas Athena, he was not a superhuman figure but a very mortal man, in his own words as rendered by Fitzgerald...
Morgenthau sees the moral issue revolving around "the enormity of Eichmann's misdeeds" "The crime, being of superhuman proportions," has according to Morgenthau "left far behind the legal remedies known to men." Hence the questionability of the proceedings is again out-weighed by the absence of plausible alternatives. "The choice," Morgenthau goes on, "is between doing nothing, which would be an outrage to our sense of justice, and doing something, admittedly questionable from a legal point of view and unsatisfactory in moral terms." He concedes the possibility of "devising more valid proceedings than those which are now in prospect," although...
...sword in his left hand, he cut down three of them, but was bayoneted by the fourth, the steel plunging deep into his chest. His face still extraordinary in its immobility, he seized the bayonet, pulled it out of his own flesh, cut down the man and, with another superhuman leap, cleared the wall and vanished into the darkness. We were left absolutely dumfounded...
...called No Place: William O. Douglas Jr., 28, son of the Supreme Court Justice. Patterning his antics after France's celebrated Mime Marcel Marceau, young Bill was better than boring, less than soaring. His best act was titled "The Five Thousand Pound Lift," in which he applied a superhuman clean-and-jerk to a gigantic invisible object...
ASROC, developed by Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Co. under the direction of the Naval Ordnance Test Station, can attack a submerged submarine almost as soon as it is detected by sonar. The boxlike launcher on the destroyer contains eight missiles. A digital computer, with superhuman speed, notes the roll, pitch, course and speed of the ship and the speed and direction of the wind...