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...three or four minutes, there was no computer at all steering the orbiter. The failure was an echo of earlier difficulties with the IBM-built machines, including a breakdown that caused a last-minute postponement of the first shuttle flight...
There is in the current protests against our nuclear arsenals at least the faint echo of the question raised more than half a century ago about Haig. Are the men and women in the White House, Pentagon and State Department grown so callous from their endless war games and box scores of missiles and megatonnage that the potential human tragedy has receded in their deliberations...
...while the author humbles his proud pair, he also proves to be a tender provider in the end. Wise Virgin (there are none here outside the old manuscript) is both deeper and more compassionate than Wilson's earlier novels, as if he had put aside the temptation to echo Evelyn Waugh's inimitable malice and had found his own balance between light and dark comedy...
...said that a real nuclear war would be much worse. Indeed it would. The documentary on Cambodia probably could also have ended with a statement that the reality was worse. The reality is always worse. TV film does not transmit pain, only an image of pain, a faint visual echo...
...South African academic spending leave at Harvard. I echo the sentiments expressed about divestiture by Minister Keaneth Carstens recently reported in your columns(11/9/83...