Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Comfort & Facts. The preschool child is too young to be comforted by reason. Just as it does no good to insist "There are no ghosts," it is not enough to say, "Don't be foolish-this is a drill, not an air raid." What seems to help most at this age, says Dr. Escalona, is a bedtime story, an extra cookie, a night light, and the knowledge that mother is not far away...
High-Flying Pad. Skybolt's defenders insist that the five test failures are virtually meaningless; almost all missiles have failed in their early tests, including Polaris. The Skybolt enthusiasts say that their bird, along with Polaris and Minuteman, would give the U.S. greater missile flexibility-an aim long pursued by the Kennedy Administration. Minuteman's fixed bases can presumably be pinpointed and destroyed by an enemy, and Polaris' submarines move into position at only 30 knots, but Skybolt's bombers can fly at more than 600 m.p.h...
...Robert McNamara remains unimpressed; to him, Skybolt seems worth neither the cost nor the effort. Groans an Air Force strategist: ''They threw our Skybolt into a cost-effectiveness computer. and it came up 'tilt.' " If Skybolt's advocates insist on comparing their bird with Minuteman and Polaris, claim its critics, they are on shaky ground. Skybolt is more elusive than a land missile only when it is airborne. But the cost of keeping a B-52 fleet aloft is immense -and a SAC base is a much softer target than a hardened silo. A nuclear...
...Duck" of Dawson's Suite Picaresque neatly juxtapose their heroes with a more immediate world, and unlike "Tonto" and "Woody Woodpecker" are careful and clever, never trying to tease too many profundities at once. For the most part he avoids what most of this issue's other contributors tirelessly insist upon attempting--sloppy, rambling, and pretentious juggling with the Absolute. Instead of annihilating all his images by sudden leaps from them into windy generality, Dawson gives them a shape secific and limited--in short communicable...
Shapiro's articles on Cuba have appeared in the Nation and the Atlantic Monthly. They term U.S. policy "inflexible," insist that responsibility for Cuba's drift to the left is two-sided, and warn that even an invasion by 250,000 U.S. troops would not bring about a clear-cut military victory. Shapiro, a 35 year-old man whose wife also teaches at MSU, returned from a visit to Cuba in August, and then referred to Cuba as a Communist dictatorship and a police state...