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...always unjust phenomenon of war, whose scenario of death and sorrow could be averted through the means of the negotiating table." He observed that "we are not facing terrifying spectacles such as those of Hiroshima or Nagasaki, but each time that we risk man's life, we trigger mechanisms that lead to such catastrophes...
...part of this effort, the White House views the trip as a major opportunity for the President, whose most important political asset is his infectious personal charm, to dispel a still prevalent impression in Europe that the leadership of the Western alliance is in the uncertain hands of a trigger-happy cowboy. A growing mood of pacifism on the Continent, suffused with latent anti-Americanism and guided in part by leftist forces, threatens NATO's plan to modernize its nuclear forces. The President will attempt to counter this attitude in a series of interviews with European newspapers and television...
...world where overpopulation threatens to destroy the environment even if overcrowding does not first trigger a nuclear holocaust, this attitude is insane, particularly from a social scientist. I don't know what Mr. Pattullo actually does, but his title suggests to me, as I cam certain it will to the general public, that this man is only slightly less exalted than a dean, whose pronouncements represent august academic judgment based on careful thought and research...
What Barrett and his demographers have discovered is sure to prove invaluable to churchmen and scholars everywhere. But it will also trigger new controversies. For example, Barrett concludes that Brazil, the world's biggest Catholic country, in fact has 11.4 million people on the Catholic rolls who are really Protestants, and 60 million who dabble in the worship of spirits...
Catholic School Girls, which opened off-Broadway last week, is unlikely to bend anyone's faith-though the sight of Shelley Rogers' dark eyes and impish beauty could trigger instant puberty for any twelve-year-old boy in her class. Rogers is one of four young actresses who alternate roles as students and teachers in a Yonkers, N.Y., parochial school back in the '60s. All the tribal rites reprised here have been done before, and better, and too often-at alumnae gabfests, if not onstage-for Playwright Casey Kurtti to pretend to freshness. Alas, freshness-make that...