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THE NATION: The Real Aid

Upon the U.S. rests a responsibility linked to, but greater than, its political leadership of the free nations in the cold war. It is obliged to represent before the world the moral and social postulates that underlie the free-enterprise system as now practiced in the U.S.

In 1955 that system scaled a new peak of success; so spectacular was its performance that TIME'S Man of the Year could be chosen only from among the captains of the U.S. economy. The real story of U.S. business success is still not fully understood by Americans—and scarcely understood at all in other countries....

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