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Philbrick has little to say shout what made his associates tick, why they were communists or what they were trying to accomplish. He does not talk much about their links with results nor about their espionage activities, nor about any of the other factors which make Communism far more dangerous than a group of office-girls sitting around and reading the "Masifesto." Philbrick's look at Commssion only scratches at the top layer of a problem which gets far too much superficial handling...
...last-minute tinkering and tuning had been done. The standard stock cars-among them British Allards and Sunbeam Talbots, French Simcas and Citroëns, Italian Lancias and Alfa Romeos-were as ready as they would ever be. At a series of watch-tick signals, 328 grim-faced drivers from 18 nations set out from such widely scattered starting points as Lisbon, Palermo, Oslo, Glasgow, Munich, Stockholm. Their goal, some 3,300 roundabout kilometers (2,000 miles) away: Monte Carlo -and a million francs (about $3,000) first prize...
...qualified citizens of the world of international ski racing must have two prerequisites: skill - and courage. It takes courage to use skill, or to use it to that utmost which wins races. A watch-tick moment of bad judgment, a split second of uncontrol can send a downhill racer flying off the beaten track at a fatal 60 m.p.h. clip...
...Isador Lubin, U.S. delegate to the U.N. Economic and Social Council session in Geneva, broke in with a quiet recital that was worth half a dozen angry replies: "Let's see how deeply concerned [the Russians] are about the fate of these peoples," he said, and proceeded to tick off the Soviet record in contributions to international welfare agencies...
Shaw was a bit of a mystic, she thinks, and doubtless a bit of a revolutionary; but what really made him tick was neither the urgings of the Life Force nor the welfare of mankind, but simply an obsessive need "to write about something or other." His days were "dominated by the fascination of finding words for ideas and sentences for the words"-and the only alternative, Shaw once told her, was "to die for want of something...