Word: following
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LOVE'S BODY, by Norman O. Brown. As a follow-up to his Life Against Death, which has become an undergraduate's delight, University of Rochester Professor Brown offers further Freudian ruminations on his theory that mankind's greatest enemy is sexual repression...
...mile-range A-3 Polaris. Nuclear energy gives them unparalleled mobility and almost indefinite sea-keeping capacity; based in Spain, Guam and Scotland, they patrol up to 60 days each, returning to port to change their 140-man crews. Not surprisingly, the Soviet Union has tried to follow suit, is believed to have up to 15 nuclear-powered subs; each is equipped with three 500-mile-range missiles, and in all likelihood they can be launched only from the surface...
...needed, the World Meteorological Organization will next year inaugurate a "World Weather Watch" using Tiros and Nimbus satellites and a network of 250 land and sea stations. Even more accurate observation is envisioned by U.S. Physicist Peter Castruccio, director of IBM's Advanced Space Programs, who suggests a follow-on to the Apollo program that would place weathermen in the sky along with two unmanned platforms equipped with complex weather-probing devices...
Because the requirements of modern technology are so vast, only the U.S., untouched among the large, powerful nations by the ravages of war and nurtured on a freewheeling capitalism, had the resources to lead the technological advance. By the very nature of the advance, other nations had to follow, adopting the techniques and products that had been developed. This fundamental fact of modern technology, as much as anything else, is what has galled Charles de Gaulle and spurred him to insist that France develop, for example, her own atomic force de frappe. The Common Market, too, is Europe...
Even as they push for a revision of Catholic marriage rules, the theologians concede that any change will be slow in coming. Faced with a possibly revolutionary decision involving the church's stand on birth control, prudent Pope Paul VI is most unlikely to follow it up with an equally radical change in divorce law. More than once, he has expressed alarm at the mounting number of annulment cases clogging the Sacred Rota, the church's final court of appeal on such problems...