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China-watching has become the indispensable underpinning for the evolution of U.S. policy. To get the material they need to form realistic analyses, both Government and academic experts tap numerous and diverse sources, covert and overt. The U.S. maintains its largest consulate in Hong Kong, where a corps of translators...
1961: Lincoln Center management says New York Philharmonic Hall will be "the finest musical instrument in America." 1962: Hall opens. Critics say it is acoustical dud-mushy, strident, dry, opaque, flat, cold. Hall's 136 sound-reflecting "clouds," suspended from ceiling, are tilted, lowered, raised. No help. Diffusion of...
Fortunately, no small nation can enter the race unless it has a highly developed electronics and metallurgical base as well as a solid corps of expert physicists, technicians and weapons engineers. To produce four or five Hiroshima-type bombs a year, it needs a big 70-megawatt reactor and, to...
¶ INDIA, whose aversion to the bomb is far more deep-rooted than Canada's, has nonetheless raced to complete its own atomic facilities-and has a more advanced nuclear technology than China, despite the substantial Soviet assistance that Peking received in the 1950s. India refines its own reactor...
Sovereign Prerogative. Frankfurter saw the Constitution as "a vessel out of which meaning is drawn and into which meaning is poured." Vast power to alter that meaning, he pointed out, rested with nine fallible men: "The Supreme Court is the Constitution." For that very reason, Frankfurter feared that lifetime judges...