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Died. Arthur William Radford, 77, the first Navy admiral to serve as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1953-57) and an ardent crusader for naval airpower; of cancer; in Bethesda...
...Radford became a naval flyer after serving in World War I and commanded the Pacific Fleet during the Korean War. A renowned naval strategist, he supported President Eisenhower's belief that the Communist threat to America could be met only with the coun-terthreat of massive nuclear retaliation...
Another Catholic feminist, Theologian Rosemary Radford Ruether of Howard University, suggests that a rise of feminine influence would liberate men as well as women by overthrowing man's technological empire-a "denatured Babel of concrete and steel." Then, says Ruether, men and women together could "learn to cultivate the garden . . . where the powers of rationalization come together with the harmonies of nature...
...town or how to drive the intruders away. One man wrote the mayor with a gruesome plan for overkill: "You mix coarse meal with plaster of paris and feed it to the birds. It's sure to stop 'em up." But nothing has worked-not even a Radford-like barrage of noise-perhaps because the infested area is so much bigger. As yet, there seems to be no "final solution...
When fiendishness failed, the town turned to noise. Last week's salvos drove all but a few of the birds from Radford-presumably to quieter roosts nearby. The citizens will next thin out the piney grove in hopes of discouraging the birds from returning...