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...universal state of mind." He followed a cynic's success formula: "Get the money." His cold blue eyes discouraged friendship. From his altitude in journalism he could reach a hand down to promising young comers -Bob Considine, Paul Gallico -only to turn on them if they seemed to threaten his position. One he always cut was Ring Lardner, whom Runyon suspected -rightly -was a writer of far greater in sight, substance and style...
Such an agreement between the United States and Britain would upset de Gaulle, since it would threaten to give new life to what has been until now an American policy failure. Of the three great European powers, only Germany had been enthusiastic about...
...88th enacted the most far-ranging civil rights bill in history. It approved an $11½ billion federal income tax cut, the biggest ever, as a means to spur the economy. It set up a program of federal-state cooperation in tackling the mass transportation problems that threaten to stifle metropolitan areas, set aside some 9,000,000 acres of wilderness for future recreation and conservation. It provided federal grants to build higher education facilities, created a program to retrain employees displaced by automation. It gave top executives in Government new incentives to remain in public service by sharply increasing...
...world stands at a great spiritual crossroad--there is a definite need to distinguish truth from error. Militant atheism is waging a concerted battle for the control of the minds of men...and Americans are challenged to meet this threat. In addition, socialistic and tolitaritan [sic] forms of government threaten to dilute our American principle of 'government...
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea owes something to Admiral Rickover and even more to Jules Verne. It is the story of an enormous nuclear submarine that patrols the ocean floor, combatting the sinister forces, human and natural, that threaten the American way. Last week earthquakes of unprecedented ferocity were about to produce tidal waves that would drown almost anyone in the U.S. who did not happen to be standing on Pikes Peak. To counteract these H-breakers, the sub had to blast them with H-bombs before they got rolling. For one hour, on land...