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...saddest result of the cold war that scientific impartiality might be considered vaguely unpatriotic. But it would be tragic if such suspicions obstructed those efforts which could regear the Geneva negotiations toward areas of possible agreement. President Kennedy should, before ordering the resumption of atmospheric nuclear tests, propose a list of reputable and responsible American scientists willing to implement an inspection scheme. Such an initiative would publicly weaken the contention that there are "no neutral men," and at the same time, undercut the recurrent fear that inspection scheme. Such an initiative would publicly weaken the contention that there...
...saddest stories I have read lately, and one of the most depressing pictures I have seen this year, appeared in your columns under the heading, "The Bloodbath Cure...
...dismissed as an irrational view of a question on which he simply was not qualified to pronounce. Unfortunately, the Cardinal has done more than speak out of turn; like the Protestant ministers who shouted loudly that police corruption is intolerable, he has helped to revive Boston's saddest and oldest religiously based controversy. The prelate and the policeman in his diocese can still remember when signs were hung announcing that "Drunken Irish need not apply." Their memories are even more vivid and bitter when, seemingly without discrimination, their officals are called corrupt and vicious. Cardinal Cushing's wrath is easy...
...from his U.S. visit, Camel Driver Bashir Ahmad was a changed man. Bashir, whose customary costume used to be baggy salwar pants and a sweaty turban, now swanked around town in a spiffy achkan (a knee-length formal coat) and karakul cap, saw would-be visitors by appointment only. Saddest of all, Bashir is a camel driver no more. Awaiting delivery of a truck given him by his U.S. host, Vice President Lyndon Johnson. Bashir has leased his camel and cart to a relative...
...public hospitals (for dope addiction). Disinherited by the father who had long ignored him, and unemployed since his collaboration on the 1959 bestseller, The Curse of the Misbegotten: A Tale of the House of O'Neill, the famed playwright's son was arraigned last week on his saddest charge yet: neglect of his four children. After finding not a single bed in the ramshackle Point Pleasant, N.J., home where his offspring slept on inflated swimming mats, police jailed O'Neill in lieu of $1,000 bail...