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...Outwardly, they profess confidence that they can ease McNamara's doubts. "I'm not defending carriers," says Admiral George Anderson, Chief of Naval Operations. "Carriers defend themselves-for the good of the U.S. They represent the only weapon system simultaneously prepared to wage general war, limited war, sub-limited war, or simply to make a show of force whenever and wherever necessary in support of our national policy...
Olson's book is an analysis of religious lessons that have been used by four representative Protestant* groups: the Unitarians and Universalists, the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, and the fundamentalist churches that sub scribe to the materials issued by the independent Scripture Press. Olson makes clear that all four church groups are officially and staunchly opposed to anti-Semitism and anti-Catholicism, and that most religious texts do provide a healthy antidote to prejudice. Nonetheless, he argues, there still exist lessons that can subtly evoke unfavorable attitudes to other faiths in pupils...
...massive standing lamps, the gloomy high ceilings and rich carpets. Instead, the rooms are low-ceilinged (more floors) and cheerily antiseptic, with light furniture and artificial plants, bathed in the flat, shadowless lighting of fluorescent panels and inset ceiling lamps. From the complex air-processing plant in the clean sub-basement to the twin-bedded rooms and suites above, the club is planned, as the Princeton Alumni Weekly says, "to please the girls...
...Ethan Allen patrols the North Atlantic, this automatic navigation system constantly feeds position readings into the guidance system of all 16 missiles. At every dip and turn of the sub, its missile brains know the ship's location, local vertical, true North, target location and trajectory to be flown. In this underseas base, the countdown is always...
...order to fire the Ethan Allen's holocaustic weapons would come in a coded message on the sub's low-frequency radio. Like all Polaris subs on station, the Ethan Allen receives a constant stream of "familygrams," routine orders and plain "garbage"; the idea is to keep the message traffic at a steady pace, so that an emergency would not increase the flow and thereby warn an enemy...