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With the order of the day-"Go limp if police attempt to move you"-Philosopher-Pacifist Bertrand Russell, 88, laboriously and lengthily prepared for his massive, passive, sit-down demonstration in favor of unilateral British nuclear disarmament. (The new creed: "I'd rather be Red than dead ") When the great day finally came last weekend, the Gandhiose effort was a bit of a flop. When his silent horde of 3,000 arrived outside the Ministry of Defense to squat on the cold pavement, the box formation of 400 bobbies perversely refused to touch a soul. When the Russell forces...
After eight years of serving his private eyewash to magazines, Hard Guy Mickey Spillane, 42, plans to come out with another book this spring. In the period since Spillane's Mike Hammer last gunned down the pike, Mickey has been a proselyting pacifist for Jehovah's Witnesses, has taken stock of his literary competition. "All of my early stuff," he says, "is now looked upon as mild. I was the first in the field, but now they've even got women writers who purvey more violence and tough talk than I ever did." Critic Spillane, whose seven...
Preacher & Teacher. Archbishop Ramsey also disagrees with Archbishop Fisher on the desirability of making adultery a criminal offense, and demurs from Dr. Fisher's opinion that God may well want the human race to wipe itself out. "I am not a pacifist," he told students at Oxford last year, "but it is difficult to see today how there could be a just war. If the choice came between blowing up the world and being overrun by Communism, I still don't think we have the right to blow up the world...
Died. Emily Greene Balch, 94, social worker, humanitarian and pacifist who won the 1946 Nobel Peace Prize after an energetic career that stretched back to 1915, when she and Jane Addams founded the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom; in a Cambridge, Mass, nursing home...
...sake," the New Hampshire legislature and Attorney-General Wyman denied them the right of group association that is essential to freedom of assembly. Obsessed with a suspicion of "out-of-state" ideas and people, state authorities arbitrarily limited the number and length of visits to the 70-year-old pacifist. Now, the Superior Court has finally refused to keep him in jail any longer...