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...arms race goes on as it has, we are left to ponder not if, but when, a nuclear war will occur. Our choice is between great change and great ruin. In order to survive we have either to avert an attack or to shield ourselves from its effects. Since anti-missile defense does not exist, protection means going underground in shelters. Secret reports to the President have urged this sort of "passive defense;" a well-known atomic scientist recommends it on television; and Herman Kahn has recently dedicated a book to the idea...
Unless we resign ourselves to crawling underground and re-emerging into a world of ruin, we must work to avert an attack. Threats of retailiation are not sufficient, because fear does not prevent mistakes and accidents, and may, in fact, make them more likely. Fear builds more weapons, and weapons more fear. The fools are those who assume we can go on as we are. Fast-moving technology, from which we can not escape, calls for radical politics, and presents Kennedy's greatest challenge...
...Castro has before long. Faced with an almost 50% drop in foreign exchange in the past year, the U.S. trade boycott, and the loss of $150 million from the discontinued U.S. sugar bonus, Economic Czar "Che" Guevara flew behind the Iron Curtain last month for help to avert economic disaster. Czechoslovakia agreed to double its aid, bringing the total to $40 million. But estimates are that Cuba needs an irreducible minimum of $250 million in freely convertible currencies this year to replace income lost by severing its U.S. trade ties, and Che was reportedly asking...
...giant Pogo stick, the Philadelphia Warriors' skyscraping (7 ft. 2 in., 260 Ibs.) Wilt Chamberlain grabbed 55 rebounds to break the N.B.A. record by four in the skill the pros value almost as highly as scoring itself. But while Chamberlain also scored 34 points, he could not avert his team's 132-129 loss to the champion Boston Celtics...
...organization called the International Development Association (IDA) got under way last week and immediately ran into the familiar experience of seeing other nations avert their gaze when the plate was passed. Conceived as a soft-currency adjunct to the World Bank, in which underdeveloped nations may borrow dollars and other hard currencies but can repay in a variety of nonconvertible currencies such as rupees or drachmas, IDA originally was to start with $1 billion in capital. Though the U.S. dutifully subscribed its promised one-third-$320 million-in full, other nations fell short, and IDA last week began with...