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...with an eye on the clock, slashes away at his paper work, Gilpatric sits suavely behind an unlittered desk, almost always has time for some casual talk with a visitor. When McNamara begins to whirl out a blizzard of "snowflakes"-Pentagonese for his single-page directives that often demand prompt action-Gilpatric may help dig out a snowed-under officer by getting an impossible deadline date extended...
Should a hapless lawbreaker find himself faced with a night in the Cambridge jail, a call to Dean Watson will usually effect the prompt appearance of that individual, eyes swollen with sleep and sputtering curses at having been shaken out of bed at 4 a.m., to post bond for you. Harvard never lets one of their own sit in jail, and the University does not take disciplinary action of its own until the courts have completed trial and rendered a verdict. (The knowledge that the University has administered a penalty, the Deans fear, might unfavorably prejudice the student's case...
Cause or Harbinger? What effect would so great a market decline have on the U.S. economy? One disturbing possibility is that it might prompt widespread cancellation of corporate expansion plans. Asked one top Los Angeles retailer last week: "How can a company sell stock to raise expansion capital when the props are being knocked out from under even the blue chips?" And if the consumer got too worried by the Wall Street headlines, he might begin cutting down his spending...
...that even a "modest" nuclear deterrent will prove prohibitively expensive for France with the rapid sophistication of delivery systems and will not in fact deter a major power. If such a modest striking force were ever deployed against Russia, it would have little strategic effect, but would almost certainly prompt devastating retaliation. In short, even if France were able to tear off an aggressor's arm (more likely, in the foreseeable future, its nuclear force would be able to manage only a few fingers), this would not be enough; the U.S. would still have to move in and finish...
...where fallout watchers are neither as prompt with their reports as the Japanese nor as frank, few figures have been released. But radioactivity is known to be showing its expected spring rise. In the Northern states cows are still feeding mostly on fodder gathered last fall before the Soviet tests, and their milk is still low in radioactivity. But Southern cows are already grazing on green grass, and the spring fallout that has collected on it is passing into their milk. As spring moves north and the grass greens up in Vermont and Wisconsin, the radioactivity of Northern milk will...