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Looking up from a week of made-in-Moscow headlines, the U.S., across lunch counters, through stern editorials and in Washington debate, stirred with a sober realization that the nation faces a possibility of war over Berlin. "The countdown has begun," said Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, as he called for national unity. Connecticut Democrat Thomas J. Dodd, touching off a notable Senate debate (see The Congress), warned that the U.S. may be facing "the supreme and ultimate test," and called for a 90-day "program of the utmost urgency." In Topeka, Kans. sometime G.O.P. Presidential Candidate Alf Landon warned...
Other poetry in Identity includes work by Lowell Edmunds and Mason Harris. Both pieces are technically adequate, but somewhat pedestrian. An interesting and sober review of the recent Editor, by Aden Field, distinguished by its lavish use of such critical catch phrases as "human experience" rounds out the issue...
Then Dick Neuberger, who for five months had been under surgical and cobalt radiation treatment for cancer, prepared to resume Senate duties in Washington. Senator Neuberger, 46, had a new, sober cause in his life-legislation for medical research. "No one really grows up," explained he, "until he realizes...
...South was led down the blind alley of blind resistance by Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus in September 1957, when he spurned both federal law and the sober advice of fellow citizens in his attempt to prevent integration at Little Rock's Central High School. Last week the South turned out of the blind alley and down the rocky road toward gradual acceptance of public-school integration with a competent new driver at the wheel. When Integration Day came to Virginia, white-maned Governor J. Lindsay Almond Jr., lawyer enough to admit the legal death of his massive-resistance...
...Alcohol angina is not uncommon, results when a patient gets high enough to become "involved in emotional events" that he would have the sense to avoid when sober. Also, alcohol is often prescribed to relieve angina (it is little good except as a sedative), and "enthusiasm for the treatment" may become so great that the doctor winds up treating alcoholism, not angina...