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...Navy's needs were special: the Aggressor unit employs simulated Soviet planes to train U.S. pilots in aerial warfare. Last week the Navy solved its problem, agreeing to lease twelve Kfir-Ci warplanes from Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) for 3½ years. The Kfir is said to be superior in speed and maneuverability to the Soviet MiG-21 fighter jets...
...PECULIAR and insular category of literature known as "Harvard novels," prepare to add another to the sub-group of books about Radcliffe. Superior Women is representative of the genre but somewhat better because Alice Adams '46 appears to have no pretensions about her aims. Early on, the 'Cliffies recognize their resemblance to the typical group of girls who inhabited certain novels of the 1940s. And certainly they're stereotypical enough--the problem is that, whether Adams intended it or not, they never quite manage to become more than that...
...shame these characters aren't more alive, or at least in a more convincing setting--one evocative of the Harvard-Radcliffe scene of 40 years ago. It's also a shame Superior Women didn't appear three months ago. It wouldn't be such a bad beach book...
...that seem to have a middle and end as well as a beginning. GOLEM XIV is the last in a line of increasingly super computers developed to monitor the U.S. interests in peace or war. Unfortunately, it has grown indifferent to this task, and so has HONEST ANNIE, its superior and supposedly foolproof successor. Says one of the commentators on this debacle: "In a word, it had cost the United States $276 billion to construct a set of luminal philosophers." GOLEM lapses into total silence but leaves behind several lectures in which it puts Homo sapiens in an unflattering light...
...engaging in eugenics when they select medical students as sperm donors, a procedure that one survey showed to be happening in 62% of artificial inseminations. Says George J. Annas, professor of health law at Boston University: "Physicians in all of these situations are . . . selecting what they consider 'superior' genes . . . They have chosen to reproduce themselves...