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...might lower fatalities to 30 million. Yet these calculations were essentially academic numbers games based on constantly changing realities. They presumed a static Russian defensive capability as it existed in 1967. McNamara himself pointed out the big drawback: "We can be certain that the Soviets will react to offset the advantage we would hope to gain...
This line of reasoning, rebutted by some experts, assumes that the offensive side in missile warfare always has the advantage, that it can cheaply and easily offset any improvement in defenses. This theory also presupposes antagonists of roughly equal strength and technological development. The equations all changed when, in the mid-'60s, the Chinese developed their own rudimentary nuclear program. Now there were two threats to consider, and pro-ABM pressure rose accordingly...
...hard-nosed business. At the Miracle Valley Bible College, 100 students from as far away as the Philippines (his "special" mission territory) study the Allen brand of evangelism. In its busy headquarters building, squads of secretaries, mail clerks and printers attend the banks of file cards, automatic typewriters and offset presses that allow Allen to print and mail out more than 55 million pieces of literature every year. TV and radio technicians stand by to prepare Allen's daily radio broadcasts (58 stations) and weekly television programs (43 stations). There is a record company (47 albums of sermons...
...really very pretty; in fact, it's just about as ugly as it ever was. The layout still looks as though it was put together by a scissors-and-paste-stick-weilding third-grader only moments before it was rushed to the photo-offset man. And the attempts at profound symbolism on the cover fall as flat as ever. But now it's functional, and that's all that matters...
...through the sense of the lines as if for the first time. One notices with surprise that Hamlet's vocabulary is flecked with coarse, rustic phrases like manure on his boots; he talks of "fardels" and "the compost on the weeds" and "the slave's offal" to offset his university scholar's jargon...