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...waged-and the U.S. has the advantage in both areas. "One," Dale wrote, "is that up to now there has not been any military disparity [between Russia and the U.S.]. Of course, the pessimistic school concedes this and talks only of the future with its 'missile gap,' etc. I shall yield them this much: If the day in fact came when the Russians had a clear-cut, visible, undoubtable military superiority, including the capacity to wipe out our deterrent with a surprise attack, there would be reason to worry. It seems to me that with every development...
...crew maintained a steady 32 to 37 beat, enough to maintain a constant lead over the Detroit eight. At the end of a mile, the varsity was almost two lengths in front, and though Detroit shortened the gap in the final stretch, it could not catch up with Coach Larry Coolidge's boat...
Second-Best Bed. "Shakespeare led a life of allegory," wrote Keats. "His works are the comments on it." The allegory is gap-filled, encouraging the strange game of pseudoscholarship designed to show that Shakespeare did not really write the plays, that he was a front man for Sir Francis Bacon or Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford,* or Christopher Marlowe or Sir Walter Raleigh or Queen Elizabeth or even the Bard's wife, Anne Hathaway. Amateur cryptographers have thought they found hidden codes in Shakespeare's writing, pointing to the true authors...
Clean House. The man who is trying to fill the gap is Norman Smith, 61, longtime labor organizer who helped in the tough job of unionizing the auto industry. Covering 50,000 miles in twelve months as he motored up and down the valley, Smith set up leadership-training classes in seven towns, gradually enlisted a hard core of unionists. Then he got a big break from an unexpected quarter: a wealthy Republican rancher named Fred Van Dyke. While running unsuccessfully for Congress in 1958, Van Dyke was shocked by what he found out about the life of the farm...
CINEMA Man in a Cocked Hat. Gap-toothed, numbingly British Comic Terry Thomas, aided by Peter Sellers and Thorley Walters, launches a satirical spitball at the British Foreign Office in this hilariously disrespectful spoof of the lost art of statecraft...