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...comedian and two folk-singers; they were congratulated for showing enough interest in world peace to attend the rally. Perhaps they even came away from the rally comforted by the knowledge that there are some others who see the imminent danger of a nuclear war and of pushbutton annihilation. But they had not been alarmed or thoroughly shaken, they had not been made to feel strongly enough the sole and absolute imperative of preventing such a war at all costs...
...that her housepainter father recently built off the cellar. Last week she emerged with a bomb for the school board -a scathing letter of protest, which the Manchester Evening Herald promptly published. Her complaint: that "in the jet age, the space age, the atomic age and the age of pushbutton warfare,'' Manchester High makes no distinction between brains and brawn. "Inexcusable stupidity," wrote she. "I fully expect upon returning to M.H.S. to be faced with a course in stone axes and spears, in which no doubt I will be given another C." Charlene is not unathletic: last year...
...Russia's nuclear pushbutton, if Khrushchev's tirades last week (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) were to be believed, is a trimly athletic, strikingly handsome career artillery officer-and a Khrushchev favorite. Marshal of Rocketry Mitrofan Nedelin, said Khrushchev, is "a remarkable soldier, a hero of the Soviet Union, a splendid artilleryman who knows more about rocketry than anybody...
Wiener foresees a time when modern pushbutton war will become so swift and complex that only computers can think fast enough to make its strategic decisions. They will train themselves by playing war games, as human generals do now, and will figure out more quickly than humans when it seems necessary to push the fatal buttons. But Wiener does not trust the motives of even the brightest war-making machine. "If the rules for victory in a war game," he says, "do not correspond to what we actually wish for our country, it .is more likely that such a machine...
...latest high-speed drills (up to 300,000 r.p.m.), a $40,000 anesthesia setup; such safeguards as visible-image electrocardioscopes, audible heart-tone monitors, pacemakers, defrbrillators and resuscitation gear. Besides specialized laboratories, diet kitchens and sterilization rooms, there are 30 recovery rooms for outpatients. Rooms for inpatients have pushbutton control of draperies and TV sets, plus individual patios. The rates ($50 a day semiprivate, $60 private) are only about half what they would be in general hospitals since they include all drugs, care and X rays...