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Caravans & Color TV. Boatmen are happily convinced that they are just beginning to tap the potential market. Banks like to lend money for new boats (the repossession rate is practically nil) and wives who once turned querulous at their husbands' seasonal desertion plead for bigger, headier boats. Boat clubs blossom in landlocked regions. In Arizona, where the boating public numbered only about 3,000 five years ago, there are now more than 30,000-and many of them fan out from Phoenix as far as 280 miles to find water. There was scarcely a man-sized boat in Kansas...
Though the chances for official Army approval of this new plan are almost nil, improvements are still evident. Army ROTC has two civilian courses now. The Air Force unit this year adopted a radical innovation, completely doing away with all freshman Air Science courses. Even the isolated Navy is instituting a group psychology course for next year's sophomores. With ROTC now confronted by threatened obsolescence, the beginnings of a sensible re-evaluation of its basic foundations are both welcome and necessary...
...real reasons for secrecy are not yet clear. The United States had achieved a way of conducting atomic tests which virtually reduced to nil the amount of fallout and made detection almost impossible. Instead of announcing the achievement as a great accomplishment in helping to reduce radioactive contamination of the world, the government concealed the tests, making the ease of concealment seem much more important and sinister than reduction of fallout...
...standards more arbitrary and less reliable than the emotions themselves. This withdrawal of feeling can explain the anti-sentimentalism--which may be repressed sentimentalism--that rejects all Romantic music, rococco art, and Victorian literature while it lavishes its pent-up critical enthusiasm on movies whose artistic worth is patently nil...
COMRADE VENKA (246 pp.)-Pavel Nil in-Simon & Schusfer...