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...peak strength in World War II. By Jane's estimate, the Russians have six nuclear-powered subs, ten guided-missile types, more than 425 other submarines ranging from large ocean-going types down to seagoing patrol subs, medium-range subs and former German U-boats. In a foreword Editor Raymond Blackman observed that in "some quarters," it is still said that Russia's nuclear-powered submarines are not yet operational, but "this ostrich-like attitude can hardly be reconciled with the success which attended the building and operation of the Soviet nuclear-powered icebreaker Lenin...
...Party; nor, however, is it likely to endear him to those who want to raise the level of the campaign. A wildly partisan essay, Kennedy or Nixon? adds nothing substantially new to the campaign, and tends to detract from Mr. Schlesinger's reputation as an historian. In a brief foreword, the professor confesses his political bias, but adds, "I will rest my argument whenever possible on hard and verifiable facts; and my way, I hope, will be the way of reasoned analysis." This is the historian's gambit, but the professor is so deeply committed to the Kennedy cause that...
This section of the book comes closer to being the "reasoned analysis" promised in the foreword. The different views on the state of the nation are amplified with recent statements by the two candidates. And the conflict between the two parties is supported by a thumbnail historical digression. Further, the tone of this portion of the essay is, for the most part, clearly less inflammatory...
...their part, Roman Catholics have taken a lively interest in the Taizé experiment. France's Cardinal Gerlier wrote a foreword to a book by Founder Schutz explaining Taizé's Rule, a book that was brought out by a Catholic publishing house. "Tomorrow's generations," says Brother-Prior Schutz, "will have less and less patience with the division of Christians into different confessions. They will no longer tolerate the loss of energy used to legitimatize confessional positions, while -by the dizzying increase of population-men without knowledge of God grow more numerous...
Selections from the Speeches (1900-1959) of Murray Seasongood (Knopf; $4.50), compiled and with a foreword by Agnes Seasongood. Orator Seasongood was mayor of Cincinnati from 1926 to 1930 and seems to have been a fairly fluent afterdinner speaker, but this cannot explain why the doughty firm of Knopf decided to set down his thoughts in Electra type, designed by W. A. Dwiggins...