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...Western Europe moribund? Did it have neither the heart nor the vigor to save itself? Was it, as the Communists would have the world believe, waiting supinely for a blood transfusion from across the Atlantic to keep it tottering on a few years longer before it finally fell...
...George Marshall's thinking. In executive session with the committee, the Secretary of State continued to insist that the main battle against Communism would have to be fought in Western Europe. Because the U.S. could not now, any more than in World War II, fight with equal vigor everywhere, it must consider the eastern Mediterranean, the Middle East and the Far East as theaters of containment only. Marshall stubbornly refused to think of China in any other terms. So far as he was concerned, meager economic assistance had to suffice for the Chinese...
...sheer misuse of apparent purpose, perhaps the "night crawler" deserves special mention. No one knows what this young lady does with herself during the daytime, but like the stars, she comes out at night. Fall of vim and vigor, she easily eclipses the she-skiers, and ogles all tired but available males...
...defeat was costly to the loser: Field had spent $10,000,000 to learn that a newspaper war takes more vigor than virtue to win. The casualties were heavy: a third of the 360 on the editorial staffs were fired. Most were Sun employees, whose only solace was double severance...
Citing the "tremendous vigor of technology" required by modern civilization, Sumner H. Slichter, Lamont University Professor, predicted Thursday that the capital expansion involved may duplicate by 1990 the increase in reproducible wealth accomplished in the United States during the 60 years prior to World...