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...lightning of mediocre minds strikes the same place twice, that place is invariably Broadway. Two weeks ago, the first musical ever based on a record album, the less than divine Jesus Christ Superstar, opened at the Mark Hellinger Theatre. Last week the second musical based on an album, Melvin Van Peebles' Aint Supposed to Die a Natural Death, opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. Catastrophes traditionally come in threes, but let us pray that the real Jesus Christ will spare us that...
...officials were warning of a continuing Soviet arms buildup, Nixon said that he and Soviet leaders should be able to agree "that neither major power can get a decisive advantage over the other" so as to launch "a pre-emptive nuclear attack" or "engage in international blackmail." Defense Secretary Melvin Laird seemed to be arguing that the U.S.S.R. was seeking such an advantage when he told a press conference last week that the Soviet navy was building nuclear missile submarines at a rate that would enable it to match the U.S. Polaris submarine force by 1973-about a year ahead...
...offices and reported to their governments last week the opinions they had formed during TIME'S Report on America News Tour. These economic leaders, brought to the U.S. by TIME, met and questioned many policymakers, including Treasury Secretary John Connally, Secretary of State William P. Rogers, Defense Secretary Melvin Laird, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Wilbur Mills, and Senators Mike Mansfield, Hugh Scott, Hubert Humphrey, Edward Kennedy, Henry Jackson and Jacob Javits. The businessmen then spent a morning discussing with TIME editors and correspondents their conclusions about the future...
...Tell Me." Indeed, the Administration has fallen into the habit of talking as though the war in Viet Nam were already over. Nixon is fond of repeating, almost casually, the claim that "we are ending the longest war in the history of the U.S." Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird not long ago startled top aides at the outset of his weekly military briefing by ordering: "Don't tell me about Viet Nam now. I don't want to hear about it until the end." Viet Nam always used to be first on his agenda. Now U.S. officials seem...
...time of tentative détente in Europe, the Soviet threat is posed not in the stark terms of war but in the gray area of geopolitics. As Defense Secretary Melvin Laird put it: "If the Russians have a superior military force, they can gain their political objectives throughout the world without the use of weapons. There is no military ad vantage to overkill, but the political gains are tremendous." British Prime Minister Edward Heath outlined this gloomy scenario in a recent speech to the House of Commons: "The Soviets may calculate that eventually the sheer disparity of military strength...