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...Seymour Melman, professor of engineering at Columbia and The Peace explained that without job opportunities Negroes could not achieve equality. And job opportunities will continue to be because the American economy is geared to developing "a military competence for which there can be no useful purpose...
While producing weapons enough to destroy the U.S.S.R. 231 times over, the United States has failed to keep its underlying industrial machinery up-to-date, so that it is today, according to Melman, "the center of technological stagnation" among the developed nations of the world...
...letter from Merton accepting the citation, read by the Rt. Rev. George Casey, did not have the hopeful tone of Melman's talk. Merton, writing from a Trappist monastery in Jerusalem, said that because of his retreat from society he was not entitled to the citation. He accepted, however, because he said, at the exceptional...
...Seymour Melman, professor at Columbia, posed the alternatives of "disarmament or defeat," feeling that universal destruction would be the result of a rejection of disarmament policy...
...Second, Melman said, is the possibility of human error, of "wrongly estimating the intentions of others." He cited a recent incident where radar signals bouncing off the moon were mistaken for incoming Russian missiles...