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...REASON FOR THE RUSSIANS' fear stems from little appreciated facts recently made clear in two New Yorker articles dealing with nuclear strategy. The articles discussed American and Russian war-fighting plans, and concluded that given the vulnerability of command and control systems to preemptive nuclear attack both sides have put reliance on a hair-trigger strategy...
...other words if there is a serious crisis, both sides will seek to strike first in order to suffer comparatively less devastation. The New Yorker put it succintly: "The primary emergency plan-the one that seems more likely it be executed if the Pentagon was convinced that a Soviet nuclear strike was inevitable-involves a preemptive attack on military targets in the Soviet Union One of its principal aims would be to kil Soviet leaders ad thereby prevent their from launching their missiles...
...matter will be in Newhouse's hands. It seems plain that a succession of some kind will have to be devised, even though Shawn has displayed no desire to depart 43rd Street. How Newhouse handles Shawn, still very much a revered figure in the halls of The New Yorker, will go a long way toward determining how the New Yorker family feels about the new proprietor...
...except while serving in the Army, ran the innovative New York City minitabloid PM, which carried classy contributors (Ernest Hemingway, Margaret Bourke-White) and no advertising or comics; after a stroke; in Miami Beach, Fla. Contentious and multidimensional, he was the No. 2 editor of The New Yorker (1925-30), managing editor of the young and struggling FORTUNE (1931-35) general manager and vice president of Time Inc. (1935-38) and publisher of TIME (1937-39). After leaving PM, he owned and ran a string of small-town Northeastern newspapers, including the Elizabeth (N.J.) Daily Journal and the Pawtucket...
...Jane Phillips Episcopal Hospital and the Phillips Hotel. It spilled over into Frank Phillips Airport and gushed through every Phillips 66 station in town. In Bartlesville, Okla., last week, there was good reason for jubilation. Phillips Petroleum, the eighth largest U.S. oil producer, had succeeded in stopping New Yorker Carl Icahn's bid to take over the company after earlier beating back a similar attempt by Texan T. Boone Pickens. A three-month siege by corporate raiders had ended, and worries for the future were replaced by good feelings. "Hallelujah!" declared Joe Seward, general manager of Martin's department stores...