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...Whirlpool of Emotions. As drafted by Ike and Secretary of State Dulles, the Middle East resolution "authorized" the President to: 1) "employ the armed forces of the U.S. as he deems necessary" to defend nations requesting U.S. military help against Communist armed aggression, and 2) use up to $200 million of already appropriated funds for economic and military aid in the Middle East. The House speedily passed this version 355 to 61, with only picayune amendments...
...Senate, the resolution got caught in a whirlpool of Democratic emotions: partisan zeal, dislike and distrust of Secretary of State Dulles, disillusionment with foreign aid, rankling anger at the Republicans for using the "peace" issue in last year's campaign. For fully a month, despite Ike's call for speed, Senate Democrats nitpicked their way through the resolution, pausing for rhetoric, savoring revenge as they harpooned Dulles at every opportunity (TIME, Jan. 28 et seq.). By last week, when the joint committee sat down to draft its version, the Democrats had made themselves look irresponsibly partisan. Then earnest...
...great spaceship shuddered briefly as it went into hyperdrive and headed for the Whirlpool Galaxy. Captain Dart watched the hand of the c-meter. It was close to the speed of light, and, getting closer and closer. He felt no change, of course, but he knew that his personal time was already running slow. Each tick of the clock, each heartbeat took months or years of earth time. How old were his friends on earth? he wondered. How long had they been dead...
Such science fiction is not based wholly on imagination. If Captain Dart gets to the Whirlpool Galaxy while he is still young enough to make a safe blast-down on some hospitable planet, he will thank, in part, Albert Einstein and the theory of relativity...
...river's edge. When the girl stumbles and falls into a whirl pool, all of Jean Berthier's character flaws jump into action at once. He is afraid of waking up his fiancee; she might become frightened. He is afraid to jump into the river; the whirlpool might be dangerous...