Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dawn, staff members of the tiny Madison Press Connection (circ. 11,398) were distributing copies of an eight-page "extra" edition around Wisconsin's capital. The innocuous-sounding front-page headline: A CITIZEN WRITES TO A SENATOR. The incendiary subject: hydrogen bomb "secrets" with details and even a crude diagram. Whether any of it could result in an actual bomb would soon be bitterly debated. What was immediately clear was that the paper had blown apart the legal vises tightened against three other publications seeking to print H-bomb exposés and, for the moment, headed...
...Charles Hansen, 32, a computer programmer in Mountain View, Calif, the Progressive case was infuriating. Hansen felt that the Government was guilty of a double standard, having allowed such information to be released in the first place. When his local activism on the subject caught the attention of Senator Charles H. Percy of Illinois, Hansen wrote him an 18-page letter explaining how an H-bomb works. He also fingered three renowned scientists who had already made much of that information public in articles and interviews, but unlike the Progressive, avoided prosecution: Princeton's Theodore Taylor; M.I.T...
...seventh novel, the first since Birds of America (1971), she has overflown her subject...
Kiernan (a journeyman who has written books on such disparate personalities as Yasser Arafat and Jane Fonda) met his subject only twice, and he worked without the direct cooperation of Steinbeck's widow. A more thorough account of the career might have provided a less gloomy view of the man, but it seems doubtful. Steinbeck always feared biography. "Writers," he told Kiernan, "are by their very nature private people, in many cases lonely, frightened, insecure, incapable of relating comfortably to other people." The sentence was pure confessional...
...always seemed to be at center stage: the brilliant foreign affairs analyst who never shrank from controversy, the peripatetic statesman who was forever soaring off to distant capitals on secret missions that, when revealed, sent seismic shocks through chancelleries around the world. Even out of power, he remains the subject of intense interest: heads of state seek his counsel, his support on issues is solicited, he is deferred to?even feared?as if he still strode the corridors of the White House and State Department. During his eight years as Richard Nixon's Assistant for National Security Affairs...