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...cover story, page 56). Attacking those ailments has a special appeal for Americans; in large part they are technical and mechanistic problems that involve processes, flows, things, and the American genius seems to run that way. Yet there is perhaps also the subtle danger that U.S. opinion may succumb to an element of escapism in a massive concentration on environmental problems. It could lead to a shifting of priorities in which the overriding need to improve the social environment would be slighted. Certainly it is necessary to clean up Lake Erie, but this is also much easier than improving living...
...event, New Hampshire's senior senator, Norris Cotton, is to be heartily commended for refusing to succumb to the hysteria. This newspaper joins him in refusing to have on OUR consciences the "numberless thousands" of non-Communist Asians who will be "tortured and slaughtered" if the United States were to suddenly withdraw from South Vietnam. Nor will we accept responsibility for the betrayal of the brave young men who have served the cause of freedom- and even died for it- while asking no more in return than moral support from the American people...
...disease. The paired, normal gene orders the production of enough Hex-A to allow the necessary brain-cell metabolism. But if both parents carry a Tay-Sachs gene, there is a one-in-four risk that the baby will receive two abnormal genes-one from each parent-and succumb to the disease. If he receives only one, his body will produce less Hex-A than it should, but he will be able to lead a normal life. Like his parents, of course, he will be a carrier...
...need to flee. Though scarred by the sucking disks of the octopus, bitten by the squid, carrying the buried bills of swordfish, a few of this year's crop of calf whales may survive to be 75. But most of those that escape the whalers' harpoons will succumb to what Dr. Scheffer suggests are their real enemies: "The small, erosive, unimpressive costs of living . . . broken teeth and bones, poisonous foods, and all the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir...
...University of Melbourne, report in the Jour nal of Personality and Social Psychology that people in lines are possessed of a curious sixth sense that subconsciously spots the "critical point" when the sup ply of tickets will give out. Yet instead of giving up and going home, late comers succumb to an ersatz optimism and delude themselves into thinking that the line is shorter than it really...