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SANE has long argued for a "workable" step-by-step disarmament and a "realistic" test-ban agreement-both controlled by an on-site inspection system. It has applauded President Kennedy's disarmament proposals (Cousins called last week's U.S. plan "imaginative, reasonable and responsible"). Says Executive Director Homer Jack: "We are not pacifist, and we are not for unilateral disarmament. We're not fellow travelers and we're not softheaded...
...patients after it is widely used. To keep these backfires to a minimum. FDA first provisionally licenses a new drug"for investigational use only" (after testing in animals), whereupon most manufacturers get research physicians to try their product on 1,000 to 3,000 patients. It was this step-by-step procedure that fortuitously kept thalidomide. the sleeping pill now suspected of causing many malformations in babies in Europe and elsewhere (TIME, Feb. 23), off the U.S. markets. A sharp-eyed woman doctor on the FDA staff was not satisfied with a detail in the evidence submitted...
...diplomats had haggled fruitlessly for months over the two opposing disarmament schemes put forth by the West and by Russia. The Russians then, as now, offered a glittering but empty scheme for total abolition of all armies and weapons over a four-year period. The West also had a step-by-step program for armament cuts, but there was one big difference. The U.S. insisted on careful, on-the-spot verification to ensure that all countries 1) destroyed the arms they said they would destroy, and 2) did not replace them with other weapons manufactured secretly. Crying espionage...
...point like a schoolmaster: if the diameter of the earth were scaled down to about 80 in., he said, his flight had brought him only 1? in. above it. "If you think of the enormity of space, it makes our efforts seem puny." he said. "But these are all step-by-step functions we go through. The manned flights we've had to date have added information. This flight, I hope, added a bit more. And there are more to come...
Crossing the Threshold (NBC, 9-10:30 p.m.). Step-by-step analysis of a manned orbital flight, including films of the trips of the Russian astronauts, Gagarin and Titov, released for the first time...