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...make a flat yes-or-no statement on its intentions so that everybody knows clearly how things stand? Simply because, as one ranking Pentagon officer put it last week, there are "certain conditions" under which the U.S. would indeed be foolhardy to unlimber its guns for Quemoy's sake. So far, the Communists have hesitated to test U.S. intentions-a situation that Candidates Nixon and Kennedy themselves would have done better...
Artery disease is mysterious and confronts the physician with grave difficulties, no matter where it occurs in the body. But when nature, for safety's sake, packaged the brain and its delicate, complex system of blood circulation inside a bone box, it made things especially tough for doctors. At last week's annual Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons in San Francisco, the nation's leading medical researchers agreed that the chief obstacle to effective surgery on cranial arteries is one of man's quaint anatomical features-the Circle of Willis (see diagram...
...truth seems to be that these youths crave violence simply for its own sake. Living in incredibly squalid conditions, unable to gain any positive recognition from society, unable to find affection and companionship at home, they conceive of violence as their only alternative to nothingness...
...struggling for life within, not resigned from, an unacceptable world. We are reminded of Dostoevski. As Goodman puts it, "On the streets, they feel worthless and abandoned; in the reformatory, they are accepted back home." This is "delinquency-in-order-to-get-caught," or less clumsily, crime for the sake of punishment that implies 'belonging...
...long as the Soviet Union has them." Scornfully, he turned on some who argued that Britain could unilaterally disarm its nuclear strength without leaving NATO: "Would these people follow the cowardly, hypocritical course of saying 'We don't want nuclear bombs, but for God's sake, America, protect us'?" And what if Britain did get out of NATO, asked Gaitskell. "The whole alliance may break up. The U.S. might wash its hands of Europe." There was a rumble of protest from the floor and from the galleries. Snapped Gaitskell: "I know there are people...