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...reference to your cover illustration showing Khrushchev leading his gang: Khrush (and the others) aren't wearing their golf caps in the approved style for gangsters -namely: visor of cap drawn down over one eye, snap button undone from its catch, and bag top of cap pulled hard backward, sideward, and downward over one ear-all indicating that the wearer is as tough as tar and twice as nasty...
...view neutrality only with alarm. It is on the frontier of the free world. It has a big Communist movement, which can be and is supplied from neighboring Communist states, Red China and North Viet Nam. Its own government has little real popular backing (no government has in backward Laos, where there are few roads or telephones and no national newspaper). It is not strong enough or sophisticated enough to resist if Communists should worm their way into the Cabinet and attempt a Putsch...
...explodes in a splatter of platitudes about the moral dereliction of the scientific community-personified in Von Braun. The moviemakers, nervous perhaps about possible public reaction to Von Braun's Nazi record and the responsibility he shares for the V-2 attacks on London, have leaned over backward to stress his war guilt, with the unhappy result that the hero comes off as a jolly accomplice in mass murder, an affable fanatic who cares everything about rockets and nothing about the people they happen to kill. In the end, his moral indifference is shown to be dubiously justified...
Opposition from doctors, who believe resorting to assistance of midwives (even trained ones) is a step backward, has hampered efforts to expand the profession in the U.S. and some other nations. Brazil once had 15 midwifery schools, now has only two-and 80% of all deliveries are unattended. Chile has only 640 midwives for a population...
THEREFORE BE BOLD, by Herbert Gold (256 pp.; Dial; $3.95), is a fond, amused, amusing look backward at adolescence by an author whose other works include a hip novel, The Man Who Was Not With It, and a collection of psychologizing short stories about young separateds, Love and Like. As in his other books, Author Gold, 36, shows considerable skill, inconsiderable passion (or heart, as the song writers have it), and a tendency to roll his phrases around in his mouth now and then in the manner of a winetaster...