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...course, the pessimistic school concedes this and talks only of the future with its 'missile gap,' etc. I shall yield them this much: If the day in fact came when the Russians had a clear-cut, visible, undoubtable military superiority, including the capacity to wipe out our deterrent with a surprise attack, there would be reason to worry. It seems to me that with every development-the Polaris submarine being the best current example-the chances of such a decisive superiority become less. In any case, it is quite clear that the attitude in the world at large...
...contented, fortyish bachelor in a London suburb, but unfortunately for his bucolic peace of mind, he has spent some time in Buchenwald as a British spy successfully masquerading as a Gestapo captain. Naturally, the vengeful killer does not know this, knows only that he has a score to wipe out with a Nazi. If the characters seem led rather than driven, the details of the man hunt are always in sure hands, and it is plain that after all these years suspense is still a Household word...
...very accurate, but they require elaborate ground equipment that is so expensive that separate guidance cannot be provided for each missile. This being the case, the missiles at a base cannot be fired in salvo. Each must wait its turn-and during the wait an enemy hit may wipe out the base itself. All future U.S. missiles will be inertially guided. Since they will be self-contained, an unlimited number of them can climb into space at the same instant, each carrying instructions to fly to a different target, and each bearing the self-containing wherewithal for devastating accuracy...
...along with no more stirring thought in the minds of most men than desire for di version, personal comfort and safety.¶I Poet Richard Armour at Whitman College: "Can you visualize with me brain service stations called Brainatoriums or Braindromats, where attendants (appropriately clad in white jackets) will wipe off your glass cortex and polish the chrome of your cerebellum while pumping in five ounces of grey matter? 'Fill 'er up,' you will say, 'and give me the superpower antiknock Ethyl think juice, with vitamins added.' And sometimes you will drive off with...
...reference to your article on pornography v. the U.S. teen-ager [May 16], I as an adolescent am revolted by the way every status-seeking parent wishes to shield us from some Gargantuan force known as sex. To wipe sex out of our lives, they will have the Herculean task of i) destroying 7$% of the advertisements seen on TV, 2) razing every bookstore, newsstand and publishing house from coast to coast, 3) bankrupting the film industry, and 4) installing blinders on every red-blooded teenager...