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...Defense Secretary Robert McNamara has spent several hundred million dollars toward a taut new National Military Command System. It should keep a nervous G.I. in Europe from firing his atomic bazooka in the dark of night, or prevent a B-52 crew from striking Russia because of a communications breakdown. Much of NMCS, as Pentagonians discreetly call the system, is secret. But its major elements include...
...Little Theatrical." Stern develops an ulcer, ''a hairy, coarse-tufted little animal within him that squawked for nourishment," and is sent to a nightmarish rest home populated by a brilliant set of grotesques that might be right out of Hieronymus Bosch. Stern emerges to have a nervous breakdown, which Author Friedman manages to make both hugely comic and horrendously real...
...expressed his thanks to James taylor '65, treasurer for the drive, C. Lewis '63, co-ordinator Radcliffe, and "to every solicitor." breakdown of the drive results made after the final tabulations. Though the fund drive is over, HCC increase its total with the net pro- from a dance in the freshman at 8 p.m. tonight. The mixer will girls from more than 20 colleges music of three bands, including and the Maniacs. The dance is all classes...
...terrier, Charlie, skitters happily around the place, and in nice weather lives in a house under the magnolia tree that Andy Jackson planted near the back door. Pushinka, a pooch who came as a present from Nikita Khrushchev, has had a hard time of it: he had a nervous breakdown, was shipped off to Walter Reed Hospital for treatment, but is back now. and is apparently hale and hearty...
...already devoted a good deal of time to discussing about these things, and it now appears that his efforts may be damaging his own writings. Edmund Wilson, in the 30's, was affected by the tension between himself and his society to the point of suffering a nervous breakdown, as Baldwin had also done in the 1950's. But Wilson, while attempting to clarify things for himself, produced some excellent first-hand journalism as well as some first rate academic work on political and literary subjects. Re-reading these works now we sense a mind that was continuing to advance...