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...note that your book reviewer (Story for Icarus) and the Culver illustrator like their Minotaur with a human body and a bull-like head. How come? Ovid, of course, is evasive, but old Bulfinch (ponder the possibilities in that name!) tells it just the other way around. A minor existential choice, perhaps, but not, indeed, without its psychological implications...
...arms race goes on as it has, we are left to ponder not if, but when, a nuclear war will occur. Our choice is between great change and great ruin. In order to survive we have either to avert an attack or to shield ourselves from its effects. Since anti-missile defense does not exist, protection means going underground in shelters. Secret reports to the President have urged this sort of "passive defense;" a well-known atomic scientist recommends it on television; and Herman Kahn has recently dedicated a book to the idea...
Havana's government-operated television station CMQ presented an unusual Nativity scene for Cubans to ponder last week. Above the building's entrance was a painting of a peasant couple watching the newborn babe in the manger. Overhead, a light bulb screwed into his forehead, beamed the face of José Marti, Cuba's national hero. And out of the East strode the three Wise Men-Fidel Castro, Economic Czar Ernesto ("Che") Guevara and Army Chief Juan Almeida. The symbolism, in a way, was appropriate. On Christmas week,* the East was where Cuba found itself tied...
Thus the old electoral system, which has the great advantage of being an established ritual, is the best, and it is clearly in the interests of liberals to retain it. Leading the Senate fight against an electoral reform proposal in '56, Kennedy produced an apt quote for liberals to ponder: "When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change...
...Nation's Future (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Columbia University Professor C. Wright Mills and former Assistant Secretary of State Adolf A. Berle Jr. ponder U.S. policies toward Latin America and Cuba...