Word: pastings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...21st CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "Stranger Than Science Fiction" illustrates, through science-fiction film clips from the past, that all those wildest dreams (ground-to-air missiles and trips to the moon) came true. Repeat...
Even in the absence of immediate new weapons deployments, the business of arms control is tremendously complex. Past agreements, such as the 1963 partial ban on nuclear-test explosions, were reached only after long negotiations and after Moscow and Washington came simultaneously to the conclusion that potential benefits outweighed the risks. Distrust between the two nations remains basic and deep. Intelligence experts and strategists deal in short-range "estimates" and long-range "assumptions" on what the other side is doing now and might do later. Military and intelligence professionals tend to be pessimists, and hence hawks. China's nuclear...
...continue investigating potential C-B weapons. But the Pentagon could quiet widespread fears by doing more to prove to the public that its programs are indeed primarily designed for defense and protection. The Army could begin by ending some of the secrecy-and deliberate distortion-that has marred its past record. While full public disclosure is clearly impossible, a good deal of public confidence might be restored, for example, if the White House appointed a citizens' commission of scientists, doctors and laymen to monitor developments in CBW. An alternative might be a joint congressional committee. Such a body might...
...Delicatessen. With two huge successes in less than four years, Jacqueline Susann is thrusting past such bestseller fabricators as Harold Robbins, Arthur Hailey and Leon Uris. She is now in a commercial sphere where fame matches fortune as a spur to effort...
...characters-an Indian clerk in the general store, an old farmer down the road -with the sort of spendthrift brilliance that measures an abundant talent. He handles those woods with the care and exactness of a naturalist. In short, at 27, he is already a novelist one can trust. Past blitheness, but not up to bitterness, Woiwode treats life (and death) with unstinting tenderness. He knows the price of love-and he knows the cost of living without...