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...such proposals founder on the shoals of one inescapable problem: with a totalitarian monolith, there can be no mutual trust. "Control systems are dependent upon an open society," says retiring AEC Chairman John McCone. "There can be no safe arrangement for the control of atomic or hydrogen weapons if countries such as the Soviet Union, its satellites and Red China insist upon secrecy...
Strangely enough, Goldwater is awake to the danger of union power, but not to that of big business. It is almost ludicrous to read, "When the United Automobile Workers demand a wage increase from the auto industry, a single monolith is pitted against a number of separate, competing companies." In practice, of course, it is often management that finds comfort in industry-wide bargaining, which eliminates the risk of one company suffering a crippling strike while its competitors continue business. And if we went Goldwater's way, General Motors might be a pretty impressive "single monolith" pitted against a solitary...
...shot even though the moon would have been easier to hit. on other dates. Khrushchev violated every hallowed canon of Communist solidarity when he intervened between Communist China and India to calm down the Himalayan border crisis (see FOREIGN NEWS), thereby advertising to the world that Communism's monolith has its flaws. And his U.N. delegation acquiesced almost amiably in the decision to send a fact-finding commission to Laos...
Behind the flinty monolith of his public image stands a suspicious and emotional man, whose impulsiveness is generally held in check. Last week, at 83, under the duress of his days and years, der Alte came to his loneliest decision. Suddenly and dramatically, the greatest German Chancellor since Bismarck signified his readiness to give up his powerful office after ten years, for the more honorific post of President. It was his own decision, and yet the emotional overtones of his act showed that he was reluctantly anticipating a painful reality...
About a half a mile from the industrial monolith, the campus of 2,500-student Lehigh University, stands above and apart from Bethlehem, on the steep slope of South Mountain...