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...reference to your article on pornography v. the U.S. teen-ager [May 16], I as an adolescent am revolted by the way every status-seeking parent wishes to shield us from some Gargantuan force known as sex. To wipe sex out of our lives, they will have the Herculean task of i) destroying 7$% of the advertisements seen on TV, 2) razing every bookstore, newsstand and publishing house from coast to coast, 3) bankrupting the film industry, and 4) installing blinders on every red-blooded teenager...
Steadfast Shield. Before Khrushchev's lethal buffoonery at the summit, criticism of the U.S. was widespread. Britons grumbled at U.S. "blunders" and at the "sickening sequence of error and miscalculation" surrounding the U-2 incident. In Norway, which did not like being identified as the ultimate destination of the U2, trade unions and leftist groups argued that their country should give up its membership in NATO. Japan feared bloody demonstrations against U.S. bases...
...Foreign Minister Halvard Lange abruptly cancelled a scheduled visit to Moscow, and Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi rammed the revised U.S.-Japan treaty through the Japanese Diet. Wrote the London Times: "Once again the conviction has been forced uppermost that where Communist aggression is concerned, U.S. arms are our shield and U.S. steadfastness our foundation...
...over Southeast Asia, an emblem with the gold initials SB on a dark-blue shield is as familiar as the U.S. dollar sign. It stands for the Shaw Brothers, sole owners of the largest show-business empire in Asia. Their chain of 120 moviehouses and ten amusement parks in a half-dozen countries draws tattooed headhunter warriors in Borneo, svelte Chinese beauties in Hong Kong, betel-chewing peasants in Cambodia, wisp-bearded mandarins in Viet Nam, combative Sikhs in Singapore. No one knows better than the SBs how to turn a profit from this varied audience. At a recent Singapore...
...manning missile-tracking stations behind him in Turkey, shivering weather watchers drifting through a winter on ice islands in the Arctic. As such, he, and they, were engaged in giving the free world the warning it must have if it is to protect itself from Russian attack, and the shield of intelligence it must have if it is to seek peace without the danger of being lured into a fatal trap...