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...vital road that connects Jammu to Srinagar. In New Delhi, Defense Minister Y. B. Chavan declared flatly that Pakistan had invaded Indian territory, and officials spoke ominously of a nearby Indian armored division capable of moving into the Chhamb area within 24 hours. It might well move with caution, since India's armored equipment consists mostly of aged British Centurions and U.S. World War II Shermans-no match for Pakistan's Patton tanks...
...going to find man flying in space for as long as a year some time in the future," he predicts. "The doom-and-gloom bit about man's inability to perform in a hostile environment has been vastly overplayed." His optimism, however, does not exceed his engineering caution. "We're doing all this within the realm of logic, precision and nature," he insists. "I don't look at my job for the romance I might get out of it. But I know that what we're doing is extremely important to the history, prestige and scientific...
...group practice; events are outpacing the lawyer's one-to-one relationship with clients. Warned Kuhn: "We've got to make up our minds as to whether we're going to face the facts of life or stick our heads in the damned sand." Apart from caution or complacency, the chief pressure against change comes from the A.B.A.'s 1908 canons of ethics (now being studied for revision), which condemn all efforts to stir up law business and flatly ban "lay intermediaries" -non-lawyers who aid in the choice of a lawyer. Beyond that, Canon...
There is also the danger of accidents. A three-year-old boy, hypnotized by the bell, is apt to make a headlong dash to get in his licks. In spite of the efforts of salesmen to teach caution, in California, Good Humor has been held culpable by the courts for numerous accidents that have cost the company from $10,000 to $100,000 in damages...
...stay alive he is compelled to conceal his identity from all but a few intimates, smuggle his manuscripts out of the country for publication abroad. Readers of this witty, surrealistic satire on dictators in general and the Soviet system in particular will readily see the reason for his caution...