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...crisis, unemployment and disunity" are "discrediting" the "imperialist world," Liu described with confidence and sober optimism the prospects for Communist China and the Soviet bloc. With repeated quotations from Marx, Lenin and Mao Tse-tung (who was among the 1,000-odd delegates present), Liu urged increased production to surpass Britain in 15 years. His new slogan: "Hard work for a few years; happiness for a thousand." He predicted more than 7,100,000 tons of steel production this year, against 2,200,000 tons only four years ago. But in the fine print, not all was so rosy...
...Russians made good use of the West in their all-out effort to surpass the West. The academy's All-Union Institute of Scientific and Technical Information, which Nesmeyanov founded in 1953, publishes, 48 times a year, a periodical of abstracts of major scientific papers from all over the world. The companion Institute of Scientific Information puts out 400,000 abstracts a year. U.S. efforts in the abstracting field are puny by comparison: of the 2,200 science journals published in the Soviet, the U.S. translates only 200. Americans who have been to Russia consider this scientific clearing house...
...theism, so Humanism, although based upon the naturalistic outlook of agnosticism and atheism, extends far beyond that premise. Humanism assimilates the spirit and substance of modern science and democracy, and incorporates the dynamic aspects of our civilization. In its concern for mankind, it equals, if indeed it does not surpass, the highest ethical level which any traditional religion has yet reached...
...although the U.S. is more than willing to go along with its NATO allies in talking disarmament with Russia, it still insists on the points of principle and procedure that would make U.S.-Russian disarmament a two-sided proposition; 2) the U.S., in its determination to match and surpass the Soviets in the missile race, can not afford to neglect such equally important phases of the cold war as foreign aid and liberalized foreign trade. The decisions of the NATO conference, said Dulles, add up "to quite a lot, assuming, of course, that they are carried out with vigor...
...problems and opportunities abroad will pale beside those in another undeveloped area: the almost uncharted reaches of upper space. Post-Sputnik, the U.S. is determined to surpass the Russians in the new age of space. Obvious meaning to the economy: a sharp rise in Government spending...