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...design requires that top U.S. Government and military commanders survive an atomic attack, and that they maintain absolute control over their weapons systems. Under past plans, neither condition has been met. Says one Pentagon arms-control expert: "Our setup was actually designed to act in time of general var like a chicken with its head cut off. The brain could be destroyed and the nervous system severed. Then the military muscles would just jerk in uncontrolled spasms." To hold the chicken together, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara has spent several hundred million dollars toward a taut new National Military Command System...
...Var. and Fr. Track--Princeton, Yale at Yale...
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...Var. Wrestling--Brown...
...Var. Fencing--Penn...