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Thus the Londoner stayed off the streets as much as he could. He planned his day with the robomb uppermost in his mind. He stayed away from windows. On the streets he saw hurrying people, noticeably fewer than two months...
...nomination. But the President chose to buy party unity instead. He gave the go-ahead to unexciting Harry S. Truman of Missouri, whom none of the three factions could warm to-nor strenuously object to, either. The Vice-Presidency had more than Throttlebottom proportions this time: each delegate kept uppermost in mind that his choice for Vice President might become President...
...Myth. Author Schwarzschild left Germany in 1933, moved from Paris to New York in 1940. At root, his thesis is simple: the Old Adam is, always has been and always will be uppermost in mankind. People have not improved much in the past, they are not improving now, and only fools assume the contrary. Woodrow Wilson and all those caught with him in the perfectionist dream of the Versailles years did assume the contrary, and led the world into chaos...
...between idealists and realists, the arguments on U.S. foreign policy (which has recently been the subject of a critical drumfire) weave back & forth, sometimes creating horrendous dissonances, sometimes blending with skilled counterpoint. The idealistic "blueprint" mind is uppermost in Joseph M. Jones's A Modern Foreign Policy for the United States, which consists of three articles originally written for FORTUNE. Mellow realism takes control in Carl L. Becker's How New Will the Better World...
Plans for the Freshman Jubilee will be uppermost on the slate of the Freshman Committee when it meets for the first time on Wednesday at 6:45 o'clock in the Student Council room of the Phillips Brooks House...