Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Responsibility for suggesting plays for the Loeb will pass from producers to an expanded student-Faculty advisory committee if plans now under consideration are approved, according to Charles W. Hayford '62, president of the Harvard Dramatic Club.
Seymour Melman, who is also editor of the publication "Inspection for Disarmament," drew a sharp distinction between disarmament and arms control. Arms control, he said, is a military plan, and it is the "defeatists of American society" who support it those who are "too weak to engage in competition with...
Disarmament, on the other hand, would strengthen the democratic system by "putting it to the test of competition." An "elementary step" toward disarmament should be a nuclear test ban which includes inspection, Melman said. Such inspection would weaken Russia's internal secrecy, he maintained.
These "defeatists" must counter their "political humiliation" with continued military competition, under arms control, Melman said. By equalizing the military strength of Russia and the United States, supporters of arms control hope to bring about a "stable deterrent system," preventing either side from beginning a war.
Second, Melman said, is the possibility of human error, of "wrongly estimating the intentions of others." He cited a recent incident where radar signals bouncing off the moon were mistaken for incoming Russian missiles.