Article May 21, 1960 ISSUE

Signs of the times

with contributions from David Lawrence, Robert J. McCracken, Lord Cobham, Herbert Spaugh

David Lawrence, Editor in a copyrighted editorial of the U.S. News & World Report Washington, District of Columbia

In many parts of the world, there is turmoil, friction, fear—or else restlessness, discontent and a searching for the Utopia that is never found. ... We see a contemptuous indifference to the lessons of history. Our boast is that this age—our age —is indeed the greatest of all. We ignore the Scriptural injunction: "For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?"

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