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...recent months this new basic concept of the military future has stirred the Pentagon to the depths. Signs of the new view appear in the current budget estimates and even in statements of foreign political policy. An examination of the new prospect can be made without recourse to secret material. Such a survey falls into two parts: ¶ Establishing the fact that absolute atomic deadlock is a real possibility for the near future...
...disastrous as all-out thermonuclear war. Therefore the U.S. must do more than maintain its strategic deterrent: it must also establish a tactical deterrent. It must be able to punish local aggressions with such speed and force that the Communists will finally call a halt. This is the concept of the double deterrent to the wars of tomorrow. To the essential capacity of pulverizing the U.S.S.R. by thermonuclear strategic attack must be added a tactical claw -swift, deadly, flexible...
...Magazine-Concept. Committed to still more spectaculars between now and June, Weaver last week was candid: "We're still in the learning process. The advertisers are still on the sidelines watching and waiting. We think the whole pattern will create a psychology among program buyers to put the heat on us to expand. So far this is not true." But he was undismayed. In creating NBC's Today some two years ago, Weaver fooled the experts and persuaded as many as 10 million Americans to watch their TV sets at 7 a.m. That launched his so-called "magazine...
...United States has suffered some retrogression of recent date ... I do not think that the full meaning and value of law are communicated to society through the law's own formal processes . . . To be effective, the rule of law must be comprehended by society, not as an esoteric concept, but as a working principle comparable to regular elections and the secret ballot; and the plain fact is that it is not so comprehended. This, I think, is an educational deficiency...
...slowly with the rod, now reel in fast. Suave. With style. With style. Don't break his mouth." After the second fish at last flops onto the deck, Hemingway continues his reflections. "The right way to do it-style-is not just an idle concept," he says. "It is simply the way to get done what is supposed to be done. The fact that the right way also looks beautiful when it's done is just incidental...