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...does ABM enter into that equation? Again, there is wide disagreement. Says Kentucky Senator John Sherman Cooper: "This is a moment when negotiations are possible, a moment that should not be lost." George Rathjens, a former disarmament agency official now at M.I.T., argues that the simultaneous deployment of ABMs and MIRVs would destabilize the present equation by increasing the temptation to make a first, or preemptive, strike. The Administration has argued that the ABM could be a bargaining counter with the Soviets. "We must have both offensive and defensive missiles...
...From left, front row: James L. Robertson, J. Dewey Daane, George W. Mitchell. Back row: Sherman J. Maisel, Andrew F. Brimmer, William W. Sherrill...
Historian Lloyd Lewis wrote with bugles blaring, battle flags waving and exclamation marks used like bayonet points ("Blood! Blood! Blood!"). His style was perfectly suited to the fiery temper of William Tecumseh Sherman, and his classic Sherman: Fighting Prophet inspired a more restrained younger historian, Bruce Catton, to make a career out of the Civil...
...styles were different. But we had much the same attitude toward the war and toward Grant." As it turned out, this was one of those rare literary legacies in which, considering the subject, the heir is apparently superior to the original author. Just as Lewis was ideal as Sherman's biographer, so Catton's quiet lucidity and laconic humor are precisely what is needed to amplify and examine Grant's elusive but enduring qualities...
...shortage of such types on college squads in 1968. The New York Giants, for example, are desperate for defensive linemen, and they had to settle for Defensive End Fred Dryer from San Diego State, who stands 6 ft. 6 in. and weighs a mere 228 lbs. Giant Coach Allie Sherman airily predicted that Dryer will put on some weight before the pro season starts in September. He had better...