Word: bulletin
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Herman Kahn's ponderous shocker, On Thermonuclear War, frequently mentions a weapon whose purpose is to end all human life: the Doomsday Machine. Kahn discusses its political uses as calmly as if it were a bug killer, but he gives few technical details. In the latest Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Physicist W. H. Clark spells out some little-known facts about Doomsday Machines-and some of the more refined horrors that nuclear war could bring. Both the U.S. and Russia already can build near-Doomsday bombs, but far more disturbing is the fact that they are sufficiently inexpensive...
...Alumni Bulletin reported that it has received several more letters on the report than it does on most issues. A spokesman said yesterday that the replies from alumni have ben overwhelmingly favorable to the opinions of Wilbur J. Bender '27, former Dean of Admissions...
...report, reprinted in part by the Bulletin, Bender criticized the College for a trend toward academic elitism caused by accepting only applicants from the top one-percent of high school graduates and toward an economic elitism caused by rising tuition and an inadequacy of scholarship funds to meet the higher costs...
...accordance with its experience on similar issues, the Bulletin expects several more alumni letters pro and con Bender...
...conscious president of the parent Hearst Corp., intends to strip the Hearst chain of all its weak links. Since 1951, when Chain Forger William Randolph Hearst died, Berlin has sold three Hearstpapers (Chicago's American, the Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph, the Detroit Times) and merged the San Francisco Call-Bulletin with Scripps-Howard's News, retaining only a financial interest in the hyphenated News-Call Bulletin. At least three other Hearstpapers have been offered for sale: the Los Angeles morning Examiner and evening Herald-Express, and the New York Mirror...