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...Socialist Party is antiCommunist, but it opposes the basing of atomic weapons on Okinawa. It favors return of Okinawa to Japan, but for the moment the steam seems to have leaked out of that issue. Major Socialist demand: that the U.S. pay for all land requisitioned by the military with monthly rentals (which can be adjusted upward) instead of a one-shot, lump-sum payment. If their demands are not met, the Socialists can point to a disquieting fact: the Red-led Minren, despite their poor harvest of seats, polled 28% of the total vote-a higher total than...
...showers (with one trouble: bathers had to skip from scalding-hot to ice-cold jets). After Billy Sunday abandoned his post as centerfielder for the White Stockings (later the Chicago Cubs), became the Y.'s whoop-it-up religious director (1891-94), the organization was on its full-steam merry way. Today it is the largest Y. in the world (39 branches, 119,000 members), runs 13 summer camps, offers thousands of lonely strangers in Chicago a welcome bunk...
...bases, they argue, are already prime Russian targets, and SAC missile-launching sites (where liquid-fuel rockets require considerable time getting up steam) will be, too. Polaris subs, on the other hand, are moving platforms that would defy pinpointing. Moreover, with U.S.-manned Polaris subs operating in foreign waters, the nation would not need to haggle with NATO countries over placing IRBM launching sites on their soil. And finally, say the Navymen, since Polaris-plus-submarine equals an intercontinental missile, the U.S. coiild stop work on ICBMs and their-bases altogether...
Thicker than Salve. In Miami, the gloom was thicker than the anti-sunburn salve of good years. With many a smaller hotel discreetly advertising steam heat, the bigger hotels plugged morning movies and bridge tournaments for guests unable to stay outside, reported business off 20% to 30%. But some hotelmen quickly slashed rates, even offered free airline transportation for wives. Miami hoped there might still be a long late season, if the weather should moderate. But last week the new 30-day long-range weather forecast predicted subnormal temperatures through mid-March...
...songs "for happy people with happy problems," composed and sung in various dialects by Disk Jockey (and onetime philosophy teacher) Paul Winter, take some savage and often hilarious swipes at diverse targets-among them Schopenhauer, Orval Faubus and the Organization Man ("I am a team man. . . I get my steam, man, from that doll Normie Vincent Peale"). Among Winter's best: a "film clip" from a Brief Encounter-styled British movie entitled The Heart Is a Desperate Delicatessen; a monologue in which Producer "Boris Ishtar" rages at his star, "Rock Quarry," for failing to hit the big scandal magazines...