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...test was necessary, the AEC maintained, to assure that the Spartan system would provide a "thin shield" defense against nuclear attack from the Chinese. Some scientists argued, however, that ABM policy and technology has left the Spartan system behind, and the AEC is testing a warhead that would never be used as designed...
...dividing line even greater than the Iron Curtain today. That has already gone." The former Archduke believes that Britain will be "a tremendous new impulse." Beyond that, he says, what is really needed are some "jolts to move this continent along," such as the removal of the American military shield. "It seems absurd to have 220 million Americans defending 280 million Europeans." But Levi argues that U.S. withdrawal would invite a dramatic increase in the Soviet role in Europe...
...farmhouse kitchen at Mougins and rations himself to one glass of wine with meals), he hides. "If I received everyone who wanted to see me for just ten minutes, it would last every day till midnight," he says. Picasso's 41-year-old wife, Jacqueline Roque, is his shield: for the past ten years at Mougins she has borne the punishing weight of answering and filtering Picasso's mail, keeping his clippings up to date, dealing with the telephone, the cataloguing, the buying of food, supplies, canvas, paint and, on top of it all, calming the nerves...
...must do as many as possible." This obsessed machismo resembles nothing so much as a displacement of sex into art: the furious production of Picasso's old age is an exact pictorial counterpart to the catalogue of seductions by Mozart's Don Giovanni, whose promiscuity was a shield against death...
Radcliffe Shield; Vice President Crimson Key; Chairman of Junior Parents' Weekend Committee, 1971; Tennis team; Captain-hockey team; Signet Society; Kennedy Institute of Politics-Student Advisory Committee...