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No one can be certain where a nation which spans two continents, whose history begins in the faint traces of early civilization, a nation now struggling to find a new and valid philosophy of existence, will be propelled by the transcendental forces of the nuclear age.

Harrison Salisbury

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Harrison Salisbury
Age: 84 †
Born: 1908
Born: November 14
Died: 1993
Died: July 5
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Harrison Evans Salisbury
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