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Vol. 026 Issue 002 (February 1 1962)
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THE SECOND YEAR
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The Second Year As he embarked on his second year in the White House, President Kennedy demonstrated that he commands all the ingredients of successful progressive leadership—except fire and fight....
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NOTES IN THE NEWS
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NOTES in the NEWS The Red Menace We are indebted to the Washington Post for some revealing disclosures on the scope of the Communist peril at home. The Post sent one of its top reporters, Edward...
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THE CASE AGAINST CIVIL DEFENSE
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Lens, Sidney
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THE CASE AGAINST CIVIL DEFENSE by SIDNEY LENS INTRODUCTION ILLUSION OF CIVIL DEFENSE "If we could see where we are and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do and how io do...
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THE MANY MOODS OF CIVIL DEFENSE
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Part I The Many Moods of Civil Defense The fallout shelter program is merely the current phase of the continuing illusion of safety in the nuclear era. Civil defense programs have been as fickle...
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THE CHANGING GOALS OF CIVIL DEFENSE
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Part II The Changing Goals of Civil Defense Sometime in I960 the Pentagon called a top secret meeting of twelve or fourteen highly influential national leaders. Among them was Governor Nelson...
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THE DEVIOUS ARITHMETIC OF CIVIL DEFENSE
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Part III The Devious Arithmetic of Civil Defense When the current shelter program was launched almost a year ago, it was immediately confronted with major hurdles in public relations. The American...
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THE NARROW LIMITS OF NUCLEAR KNOWLEDGE
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Part IV The Narrow Limits of Nuclear Knowledge Tn an interview with a newspaper-man soon after the shelter program promotion began, Dr. Edward Teller evaluated the benefits of shielding citizens...
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THE CALCULUS OF WAR
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Part V The Calculus of War VjrVHAT are some of the important " long-range implications of civil defense? Where is a shelter program liable to lead? If it is conceded that distorted estimates of...
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TOWARD THE GARRISON STATE
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Part VI Toward the Garrison State NTations tend to be fashioned and refashioned in the image of their goals; if their goals are militaristic, they emphasize more and more those qualities of hate...
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THE ONLY PROTECTION
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Part VII The Only Protection Acivil defense program, whether its rationale is based on the moderate and superficially reasonable "insurance" argument or the harsher insistence on "making the...
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THE HIRO OF HIROSHIMA
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Wechsler, James A.
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The Hero of Hiroshima by JAMES A. WECHSLER IDrom a new Canadian maga-•1 zine, Exchange, I learn that Claude Eatherly has escaped from the mental hospital in which he had been confined and is now a...
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THE PEOPLE'S FORUM
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THE PEOPLE'S FORUM Lesson in Gunfire Dear Sirs: Bank robbers have been having a wonderful season here in London, outdoing even those British comedies in ingenuity. Recently, one gang lured bank...
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CORPORATE MAN
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Gray, Horace M.
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Corporate Man The Folklore of Management, by Clarence B. Randall. Little, Brown. 204 pp. $4.75. Reviewed by Horace M. Gray Economic man, that mythical being of Eighteenth Century,...
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SANE AGITATION
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Clough, Wilson O.
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Sane Agitation The Muckrakers, 1902-1912. Edited by Arthur and Lila Weinberg. Simon and Schuster. 449 pp. $7.50. The Day of the Mugwump, by Lorin Peterson. Random House. 366 PP- $6. Reviewed...
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MAN AND SPACE
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Lapp, Ralph E.
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Man and Space The Society of Space, by Peter Ritner. Macmillan. 144 pp. $3.75. Reviewed by Ralph E. Lapp Dooks about space are now in full -L* flood. Readers of Peter Ritner's new book will be...
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TO PRESERVE LIBERTY
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Sprayregan, Joel J.
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To Preserve Liberty The Price of Liberty, by Alan Barth. Viking. 212 pp. $4.50. Reviewed by Joel J. Sprayregen The editorial moaning while the front page gloats" was Thomas Wolfe's felicitous...
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MENCKEN'S TARGET
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McCann, William
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Mencken's Target Letters of H. L. Mencken, selected, and annotated by Guy J. Forgue. With a personal note by Hamilton Owen. Knopf. 506 pp. $7.95. Reviewed by William McCann For forty years H. L....
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YOUNG BEN FRANKLIN
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Aldridge, Alfred Owen
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Young Ben Franklin The Papers of Benjamin Franklin. Edited by L. W. Labaree and W. J. Bell, Jr. Yale University Press. Vol. II (January 1735—December 1744). 471 pp. Vol. Ill (January 1745—June...
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SACKING OUR CITIES
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Griffin, C. W.
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Sacking Our Cities The Life and Death of Great American Cities, by Jane Jacobs. Random House. 458 pp. $5.95. Reviewed by C. W. Griffin A s recently as the mid-Nineteenth Century, doctors drained...
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ENDS OF THE U. N.
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Bailey, Sydney D.
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Ends of the U. N. The United Nations: constitutional developments, growth, and possibilities, by Benjamin V. Cohen. Harvard University Press. 106 pp. $2.75. Reviewed by Sydney D. Bailey rXiHERE...
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WEST'S SECOND
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Whedon, Julia
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West's Second Daughter of Silence, by Morris L. West. Morrow. 275 pp. $3.95. Reviewed by Julia Whedon Morris L. West became someone to read and watch with the publication of a novel called The...
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THREE PURSUITS
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Emerson, Donald
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Three Pursuits Promise at Dawn, by Romain Gary. Harper. 337 pp. $5. The Empty Canvas, by Alberto Moravia. Farrar, Straus and Cudahy. 306 pp. $4.50. Adrift in Soho, by Colin Wilson. Houghton...
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