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Hansen, naturally, does not believe that the witches had actual power derived from an alliance with the devil. His assertion instead is based on a reading of the religious, psychological and historic conditions existing at the time. Like other historians, he points out that the Salem trials were anything but...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Spectral Evidence | 5/2/1969 | See Source »

Wiesner disposes of the first argument in short order. The figures Brennan cites are highly suspect on technological grounds, and he admits they are applicable only "assuming that the Soviets do not make a major increase in their offensive forces in response to our improved defense." The ABM would be...

Author: By Jerald R. Gerst, | Title: ABM Again | 4/30/1969 | See Source »

(9 of 10) against other national needs, and priorities must be assigned. If McNamara's doctrine of the "worst plausible case" were applied in every case, the nation would soon be broke or all its citizens would be huddling in a continent-wide bomb shelter?or both. With defense spending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE MILITARY: SERVANT OR MASTER OF POLICY? | 4/11/1969 | See Source »

All large-scale organization tends to smother individuality. But today's young person doesn't give due weight to the fact that large-scale organization, properly designed, can also benefit the individual, enrich his life, increase his choices. Everyone lampoons modern technological society, but no one is prepared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: TOWARD A SELF-RENEWING SOCIETY | 4/11/1969 | See Source »

It all begins very swiftly in the glorious late-afternoon California sunshine. A short time after the earth starts to shudder, the huge, 20,000-sq.-mi. land mass west of the San Andreas fault wrenches itself free from the continent. San Francisco is quickly reduced to piles of rubble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anxiety: Doomsday in the Golden State | 4/11/1969 | See Source »

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