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...Secretary of State Dean Rusk was home from his ten-day swing through Western Europe. Apart from softening U.S. opposition to France's independent nuclear force and advancing the notion of absorbing it into a NATO setup, the main point of the trip was-once again-to clarify the U.S. position on Berlin...
...French can at best be delayed but not stopped in their efforts to assemble their own force de frappe-and that the West Germans someday may want to follow suit. Henceforth the U.S. will try not to prevent that force but to absorb it into a general West European setup...
Blondes & Fellowships. Scholarships explain much of the graduate binge. Not least is the "blonde scholarship"-a working wife. Now she is also likely to be studying in a marriage-by-degrees setup. Explains Marjorie McKintosh, a married Radcliffe senior who wants a Harvard Ph.D. in African history and anthropology: "I'll teach for a year while he goes to school. I'll go to school next year, and he'll be in school the year after...
...Professionals devoting their whole time to a game can reach a level of skill impossible to amateurs under the present setup...
...nuclear test series supplied little news last week. Neither diplomatic policy nor the need for military secrecy completely explained the comparative silence. There was, in fact, little to be told. Test bombs are not exploded merely to see if they will work or to admire the bang. The instrumental setup is enormously complicated, with seismographs, barographs, radiation detectors, photocells, and many more subtle instruments spread over hundreds of miles of sea, air and land. Information and analysis come slowly...