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Tightening Alliances. For all the chronic talk among U.S. allies about neutralism, fear of Communist prowess, weakness of frail economies, inability to make sacrifices, U.S. allies as well as the U.S. have "an equal interest" in withstanding Communism in all-out or limited war. It is therefore in the equal interest of the U.S. and U.S. allies to 1) pool scientific and technical resources and brainpower, 2) tighten allied interdependence in command, 3) keep U.S. forces deployed in NATO's airpower and ground-power shield, 4) provide willing European allies with nuclear weapons and delivery systems-controlled by Europeans...
...Defense Secretary's office has virtually become a fourth service. It sits uneasily atop the civilian hierarchies of the Army, Navy and Air Force, with the power of military decision farther and farther removed from trained military men. Results: wasted money, duplicated effort, lost time and, above all, chronic indecision...
...geologist who once headed the University of Delaware and later the University of Vermont, Carlson has done his best to give his students a better education. But though he has accomplished much, he has been constantly frustrated by the chronic feud between his trustees and the State Board of Regents. Worse still is a dilemma that has faced S.U.N.Y. all along: Should it try to be a real university, or merely continue to offer fringe programs, while leaving the real job of education to the state's private campuses...
Part of the problem stems from being in between two worlds. With a history of civilized government as long as our own and with an exposure to the apparatus that developed nations have--automobiles, refrigerators--and yet with chronic over-populations, a lack of marketable natural resources, and a demoralizing lack of opportunity for western-quality education, a natural frustration and discontent is generated. This was best expressed by a native who said bitterly to me, "I'd rather be a lamp-post in New York than the governor of this whole damned island." This sort of ambition...
...protein-free extract prepared from glands in the brains of beef cattle shows great promise in the treatment of chronic schizophrenics and other mental patients, a Harvard Medical School researcher reported yesterday...