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Canadian defense strategy took a historic turn last week. The old concept meant preparedness for overseas wars; the new emphasizes air power and radar screens for home defense. In Canada's new $1,775,000,000 defense budget, the biggest share (42? of every $1) was assigned to the Royal Canadian Air Force. Part of the appropriation will be spent to build and man more Canada-U.S. radar stations in the Far North. One radar network, the Pinetree Chain, is already in operation, and two more are being built this year. The balance of the air force...
...prospects of a creative and genuinely victorious outcome than is the case with violent resistance under modern conditions." How can individuals aid pacifism? By making personal commitment to nonviolence in their own lives, says the booklet. U.S. Quakers figure that if enough people develop a concern for nonviolence, the concept is bound to influence community and international attitudes...
...check up on his psychological health by answering questions: "Are you plastic? Are you always able to fit in?" Author Whitman is a Nova Scotia-born magazine writer, wife of a teacher and mother of two grown children. On lecture tours, she has long attacked this slowly hardening concept of man as "a million divided by a million." Even a belief in the existence of the "common man" can be dangerous, for men are apt to behave as they are expected to, and the common man may become deadly common - conformist putty in the hands of science and society...
...reasonable approximation of a Roman galley. But all that has changed. Last week, on the fir-fringed shore of Puget Sound, the Navy proudly unveiled the IFS- I (Inshore Fire Support Ship), a ship that combines all the striking power of its ancestor, the LSMR, with a new concept of life afloat...
...dwelling Communist Boss Maurice Thorez. Wrote Pierre: "I want to become an admiral and command a fleet of battleships ... I would review the sailors while listening to music played by naval bands. I would wear feathers in my ceremonial hat and gold braid." It all sounded quite a bourgeois concept of an admiral, especially since the Russian admirals, who like the elder Thorez are under Kremlin orders, wear no feathers, sport no dress uniforms...