Word: likelihood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sons is an early Arthur Miller effort (I believe it was his second play to be produced), and its only interest is historical. Those whose admiration for the later Miller plays is unbounded (I am not among that number), will in all likelihood enjoy it. I sympathize with Miller's often stated intention--to remove Broadway from its current rut by writing "public" plays (the word is one of Miller's favorites) which enlarge the intimate psychological drama by treating important social issues--but I find his plays themselves, except for a few flashes of powerful dialogue...
Building shelters, however, would greatly increase the likelihood of war, because the Soviets would inevitably view it as preparation for a preventive war. And U.S. citizens, watching the construction, would further accept the notion that nuclear war, after all, is sure to come...
This prospect did not seem to bother the growing number of Lumumba supporters among the U.N.'s neutral-nation membership; a frequent Lumumba visitor last week was Metrol A. Rahman chargé d'affaires of India, reflecting the likelihood that Jawaharlal Nehru has bought the line of Ghana's Nkrumah and Guinea's Touré that the only man to run the Congo is Patrice Lumumba...
...Kathleen and her husband had lived, she would now be Duchess of Devonshire, first lady in waiting to Queen Elizabeth and a niece by marriage of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. Her husband, in all likelihood, would have received his father's commission as grand master of the craft of Freemasons, along with his ducal rank, and, says Joe Kennedy, "I'd be father-in-law of the head of all the Masons in the world...
...Physicist Edward Teller, father of the H-bomb and director of the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory at Livermore, Calif., warned against the risks of submitting to a ban on underground explosions. "Very few things in science are impossible," said he. "but I do not believe that there is any great likelihood that even in four or five years from now there will be a really foolproof method of checking underground explosions down to, let us say, one kiloton [1,000 tons of TNT]. No matter how we proceed we cannot eliminate nuclear explosions of the tactical weapons size and perhaps...