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The doctor was interrupted by his wife, who reminded him of a pressing dinner engagement and an impending curtain. As we slipped quietly out the door, we heard him return to Miss Jacobs and her cities. "Cities," said Dr. Jonathan Miller to Mrs. Jonathan Miller while she bustled him into...

Author: By Anthony Hiss, | Title: Dr. Jonathan Miller | 12/20/1962 | See Source »

Peaceful Explosions. If the darkest fears of 20 years ago have not been realized, neither have the highest hopes. Sunday-supplement visions of impending universal plenty, with nuclear reactors supplying unlimited cheap power, were grossly premature. Nuclear reactors still cannot produce electric power as cheaply as thermoelectric plants fueled with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Atom: After 20 Years: More Hopes Than Fears | 12/7/1962 | See Source »

CAMBRIDGE, Nov. 23-"Let a hundred flowers bloom," a CRIMSON executive told me this afternoon, announcing a passive CRIMSON position on the impending Yalie Dalie edition of his paper. "I've just been talking to Dean he said "to tell him and the University police to My off those Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'CRIME' TURNS YALE SYMP, ASKS POLICE TO LAY OFF | 11/24/1962 | See Source »

Like the century in which he has for so long been so interested, Elliott Perkins has a passionate concern in the worth and potentialities of every individual, and he has devoted his own tremendous energies both to helping other and to making Harvard a better place for them to flourish...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mr. Master | 11/15/1962 | See Source »

knew all too well that the Soviet Union had long had the U.S.. under the Damoclean sword of intercontinental ballistic missiles in the Russian homeland. There thus seemed little real need for such a massive effort in Cuba. Yet, as Kennedy pondered and as he talked long and earnestly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Showdown | 11/2/1962 | See Source »

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