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Given any sort of military intervention, the risk of nuclear war of course can never be totally ruled out. To gain further insight, therefore, the questionnaire posited U.S. military intervention short of nuclear war. Under such circumstances, the picture changes. If West Berlin were threatened by a Communist takeover, 64% would favor nonnuclear U.S. help and only 24% would oppose it. Yet of the 64% backing Berlin, less than half would send NATO troops to the city's defense; the rest would either offer U.S. weapons or simply issue a warning to the aggressor. The prevalent belief is that...
...running a security check. The President has appointed an acquaintance of yours to make a study of Latin American affairs. Well, we wondered if you could vouch for this man's character. I mean, does he drink a lot, would you buy a used car from him-that sort of thing? After all, when it comes to national security, one can't be too careful. So anyway, Governor, do you think this person is a good risk? His name? Oh, yes. Nelson Rockefeller...
...addition to teaching at N.Y.U., Tichauer is a well-known industrial consultant with more commissions and clients (among them: Western Electric, Texas Instruments, Caterpillar Tractor) than he can possibly handle. "I'm sort of an industrial 'Dear Abby,' " he says. "They come to me only when there's a mess." One such distress call came from Western Electric in Kansas City, which was having trouble with a certain production line. Working with the staff engineers, Tichauer evolved a pair of pliers with a 30° bend in the handle. As a result of this consideration...
Diabolical Ping. This fondness for movable sculpture qualified De Maria as a progenitor of the busy school of "Optional art," whose practitioners in vite viewers to play a sort of game by rearranging various objects in a composition to suit their own tastes. Avant-garde collectors began to buy De Ma ria's work. He was soon able to have them made up in steel rather than wood, and the games became more diabolical. His 1965 Instrument for La Monte Young looks like an innocent, slender metal box with a ball in it. But De Maria designed it with...
...very difficult to see this sort of weirdly wishful thinking embodied in General Johnson's case for the ABM. He lists six "results of adding an effective ballistic-missile defense to our offensive strategic forces," of which three are highly suggestive...