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Illustrations from the field of mathematics usually cause pragmatists the most difficulty because they involve complex systems of value-free symbols. The necessity for moral choice, for deciding to hold on goal uppermost, and for acting in such a way that a goal be realized--these are teleological concerns too easily obscured by the intricacies of logical systems...
...wanted money. Uppermost in Alessandri's mind are his country's Andean-sized needs. Lying along South America's mountainous Pacific flank, Chile has one of the world's richest copper deposits, but, apart from minerals, few other natural resources. Copper production is at a record, but prices have dropped and the ore does not bring in as much as it used to. There is drought in the southern farm lands, and Chileans are still repairing the $400 million damage from catastrophic earthquakes 2½ years ago. Chile also shares some of the woes common...
Faded Crisis. Not until then did the subject get around to Wrest Berlin. Only a few weeks ago, it would have been uppermost in everyone's mind. Things seemed a lot less pressing now that Moscow had, for the time being, taken off the heat. In Bucharest last week, Nikita Khrushchev was even saying, "The U.S. threatened us with war over Berlin, but I do not see any reason to go to war." Rusk and Adenauer probably saw this as vindication of sorts for their own policies. Rusk had always felt he could talk the crisis to death...
Clearly, the Common Market was uppermost in Harold Macmillan's mind. What price must Britain pay to enter Europe? The step now seemed inevitable, but at fearsome risk to Britain's Commonwealth ties. Charles de Gaulle fears the influence of the U.S.-British alliance in Europe; does he so savor the vision of France as No. 1 nation on the Continent that he would actively try to keep Britain out forever...
...subject of the disagreement at Buckingham Palace was: What school should 13-year-old Prince Charles attend? Queen Elizabeth wanted Eton, where Charles would wear a swallowtail coat, and mix mainly with sons of U.K.'s uppermost crust. Father Philip held out for Scotland's rugged Gordonstoun, his own old school, which among other goals aims to "free the sons of the rich and powerful from the enervating sense of privilege." Last week the palace announced the choice: Gordonstoun...