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Year-end meetings between our Business staff and the members of TIME's Board of Economists have become a tradition for the past six years. Last Tuesday the men who advise us on national and world economic prospects jetted to Manhattan for an all-day question-and-answer session with our researchers, correspondents, writers and editors, who assembled this week's Business story on the economic prospects for 1976. To protect his staff from scholarly hedging, Business Editor George Church started the meeting by dipping into his store of anecdotes. "After consulting the leading economists...
Died. Hannah Arendt, 69, brilliant political philosopher, cultural historian (The Origins of Totalitarianism, The Human Condition) and analyst of 20th century malaise; of an apparent heart attack while entertaining friends; in Manhattan. Born in Hannover, Germany, Arendt took her doctorate in philosophy at Heidelberg, studying under Karl Jaspers and Martin Heidegger, before fleeing the Nazis in 1933 in the first great wave of Jewish emigration. After working with Zionist organizations in France and the U.S., Arendt broke with the movement and devoted herself to political study. It was her thesis (in Eichmann in Jerusalem) that the century's worst...
...concedes that in her younger days, her own shyness gave her a frantic need to be on the scene. Modeling gave her self-confidence, and acting "is a vent for my fantasies." Last week in Manhattan, cuddling her Shih Tzu, K.K. (short for King Kong), she reminisced about her most notable fantasy to date, Lady Lyndon. Done up like a portrait by Gainsborough, Marisa seems the model of 18th century English womanhood, even to the torrents of tears Lady Lyndon sheds at her son's death. "I could do nothing else but cry, looking at that sweet...
From the start of the Manhattan Project, says Sherwin, it was clear that an atomic bomb would be an awesome force in the postwar world. Franklin Roosevelt faced two basic options. He could reveal the project's existence (but not necessarily its details) to his ally Joseph Stalin. Or he could keep it a secret between the U.S. and Britain-which was in on the project all along-to ensure the two countries' diplomatic and military advantage...
...insisted that U.S. officials used the bomb against Japan primarily-if not solely-to impress their military might upon Russia. But Sherwin disputes this interpretation, despite his conviction that both Roosevelt and Truman intended to wage atomic diplomacy against the Soviets. He argues that all policymakers connected with the Manhattan Project assumed from its inception that the Bomb would be used to win the war-and that the assumption was never seriously questioned. Sherwin does suggest (almost parenthetically) that neither Hiroshima nor Nagasaki had to be destroyed to bring the war to a swift conclusion...