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...Europe becomes more helpless the Americans are compelled to become far-seeing and responsible, as Rome was forced by the long decline of Greece to produce an Augustus, a Vergil. Our [European] impotence liberates their [American] potentialities. Something important is about to happen...
Jean-Paul Barricelli. Cleveland; Stanley Vergil Baum, Shaker Heights, Ohio; Wilbur Arnold Cowett, Springfield; Reger Lamont Creighton, Belmont; Sumner Lee Feidberg, Newton; Irvin Milton Horowitz, Elizabeth, N. J.; James Murray Howe IV, Clearwater, Fla; Hugh Montgomery, Windsor Locks, Conn.; Whitson Makamic Overdash, Jr., Springfield, Tenn.; Armand Schwab, Jr., New York City; Charles William Stuart Talt, Roxbury; James Walter Warwick, Toledo, Ohio...
Priests and preachers told us we'd end up in hell, but we didn't believe that either." "And how do you like hell?" asked the Devil. "I still remember when those two poets, Vergil and Dante, came through...
...several toes may be stepped on and some popular heroes outrageously traduced, so it is hoped that all who feel moved to reply by letter will do so. The good letters will be printed in part, and often the letters constitute the most readable part of a column, as Vergil Thomson's Herald Tribune column has amply demonstrated this fall...
Despite this year's increase, Dr. Hauser and Acting Census Director Vergil Daniel Reed were gloomy about the future. Declared Dr. Reed: "The momentum of our population growth may carry us forward to 150,000,000 or more in the next two generations-about 1980-but, unless factors change, growth will stop and a slow recession probably...