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...cover story was written by another TIME military buff, Associate Editor Burton Pines, who received vital logistical support from Reporter-Researchers Betty Satterwhite Sutler and Beth Meyer. To keep abreast of new developments, Pines and Sutter, who have collaborated on most of TIME's defense stories over the past few years, regularly read, clip and stockpile a remarkable variety of military periodicals. "Reading Aviation Week and Strategic Review can be quite interesting," Sutter says, "once you have broken the language barrier." According to Pines, she has done exactly that. Says he: "Betty can talk throw-weights and payloads with...
...greatest share of the G.N.P. and federal budget, were also the years when the nation enjoyed some of its lowest inflation rates. In 1955 inflation was nil, and in 1965 it was around 2%. Increases of more than 2,000% in Government spending on health and housing in the past decade, declares Nunn, show that the pattern of inflation fits "the real increase in nondefense spending." Observes Oregon Senator Bob Packwood: "Let's lay to rest the shibboleth that we have been chipping away at human resources spending on behalf of defense...
Moscow has recently expanded its own arsenal of similar weapons. In the past year the Soviets have stationed in Eastern Europe an estimated 100 atomic-tipped, multiwarhead SS-20 intermediate-range ballistic missiles and about 90 supersonic Backfire bombers. These could strike all Western European countries. Warned Henry Kissinger at a September NATO conference in Brussels: "If there is no [Western] theater nuclear establishment on the continent of Europe, we are writing the script for selective blackmail in which our allies will be threatened...
...this verified illegality is a fascinating phenomenon, one rarely analysed in terms of labor injustices and ripe Conway's analysis falls short, leaving the reader with simply a sense of frustration. Stevens employees are torn between contradicting impulses of self-interest and blind sentalmentalism, their vision of a happy past and a strong faith that the future will be better. Stevens workers are bewildered, complacent, and left to die slowly with brown lung disease and blank disillusionment, but Conway doesn...
...turn away from unionizatior because their vision of J.P. Stevens is one of the small town textile mill, organizing picnics, handing out holiday bonuses, paternally providing jobs, money and security. Ironically, their gasping and wheezing testimonies of Stevens unjustices are dominated by reflections of their mill town's golden past. The reader is frustrated by their reluctance to act, almost as much as by Conway's failure to articulate the feelings that have keep Stevens workers from shaping a better life...