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Whether or not the Soviet Union has nuclear bomb shelters is a subject of some sharp controversy in the U.S. When Rand Corp. Expert Leon Goure reported last year that the Russians are quietly engaged in a massive civil defense effort (TIME, Nov. 10), many Westerners in Moscow scoffed. Soviet officials ridiculed the fitful U.S. shelter program as a waste of time and money. Shelters, said Soviet Defense Minister Rodion Y. Malinovsky, are "nothing but previously prepared tombs...
...least as interesting as Susan Hayward. Why change Thelma Ford to Shirley Booth, Jeanette Morrison to Janet Leigh, Patrick Barry to Barry Sullivan, Edward Flanagan to Dennis O'Keefe, Kim Reid to Kim Stanley, Virginia McMath to Ginger Rogers, Julie Wells to Julie Andrews, Helen Beck to Sally Rand, John Hamilton to Sterling Hayden, Diane Belmont to Lucille Ball, Phyllis Isley to Jennifer Jones...
...reality. For the conversations seem suspended in a theoretical and emotional world of their own, to which we are denied entrance. The novel never really puts to a test the ideas the characters mouth, and as a result it is dogmatic and unconvincing. The Centurions reads like an Ayn Rand novel, with a kind of crazy internal logic, but without contiguity with the world. The conversations are all terribly knowing, but they smell of a sick and dangerous self-induced naivete...
With Schlesinger and fellow Critic John Kenneth Galbraith currently on duties remote from advertising, there is another man in Government whom Madison Avenue is becoming nervous about. He is the Federal Trade Commission's aggressive new chairman, Paul Rand Dixon...
...Carnegie Corporation of New York, for high standards at all levels of U.S. society. And to the extent that standards can be raised by drastically reorganizing schools, the year's most influential blueprint is J. Lloyd Trump's and Dorsey Baynhan's Guide to Better Schools (Rand McNally; $1.25), which is already revamping high schools across...