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...nicknamed Gaga. And as Yuri Gagarin became the first man to escape the planet and return safely, earthbound humans could view the event through telescopes that offered radically different images. In the long-range reflection of history, Gagarin's adventure was one for global celebration, an inspiring forward thrust in man's effort to explore the universe. Through the foreshortened telescope of the cold war, the Soviet achievement could be seen only as a victory for Communism and a defeat for the free world...
This little land and people need our understanding assistance. They are charming people-innocent, kind and loving. It is a tragedy that they have been thrust into the no man's land of the cold...
Major Fulton finally pulled a pin to release the X-15. Walker hit the throttle. The rocket engine fired briefly, then died. "I don't have a start," he radioed. He tried again. Fourteen seconds passed ("It felt like five hours"). Then, thankfully, the 57,000-lb. thrust engine reignited with a roar...
...Kenyatta." As the smiling U.A.R. President arrived at Cairo University auditorium to welcome delegates to the grandiosely named third All-Africa People's Conference, phalanxes of young Arabs clapped rhythmically and shouted "Nas-ser." Framed against a huge black map of Africa with a red flaming torch thrust into its Congo heart, Nasser told the assembled delegates: "Nothing is more touching or close to the heart than meetings at intervals of brothers in arms, partners in the same fight, soldiers with...
...Christian civilization (and not Christian alone), man assumed that anxiety and guilt were part of his nature and that as a finite and fallen being, he had plenty to be guilty about. The only remedies were grace and faith. When the age of reason repealed the Fall, man was thrust back onto himself and, for a time, reason seemed to be an adequate substitute for the certainties of faith. Spinoza could write confidently: "Fear arises from a weakness of mind and therefore does not appertain to the use of reason/' But it was soon clear that reason alone could...