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...January, George B. Kistiakowsky, Abbot and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry, resigned from a Pentagon project staff working on the planned anti-personnel barrier between North and South Vietnam. Kistiakowsky, designer of the explo- sive trigger of the atom bomb, would not speak of his resignation in any but a philosophical fashion...
...weakness-the fact that his pressure on nature may provoke revenge. Although sensational cries of impending doom have overstated the case, modern man has reached the stage where he must recognize that real dangers exist. Indeed, many scholars of the biosphere are now seriously concerned that human pollution may trigger some ecological disaster...
...emotions that range from nervousness to outrage. "When that bunch comes here," bellowed Louisiana's Senator Russell Long, "they can just burn the whole place down, and we can just move the capital to some place where they enforce the law!" Other officials feared that the march might trigger a repetition of the riots that singed Washington and 167 other cities after King's murder, and the Pentagon hastily added more than five brigades-some 30,000 troops-to the stand-by force, now 45,000 men strong, available for riot-control duty...
...Saltz, or else stripping liquor or grocery shelves and then burning credit records. Ten deaths were counted in the capital. The 711 fires that plumed the city afforded a pyrotechnical spectacle unmatched since British troops burned the capital in 1814. Police and soldiers alike kept their fingers off the trigger, and at week's end Vice President Hubert Humphrey pointedly rewarded troopers who were still on duty in Washington with a special screening of Guess Who's Coming to Dinner...
...unit war, a caveman hangover. But peacetime culture bars such outlets, and when men fail to achieve the virility substitute of money, power or meaningful work, they can explode in violence. Not that man has a killer instinct; he simply does not fully realize the effect of pulling a trigger and blowing off another man's head. Modern long-range weapons further blunt his sensibilities. Mussolini's son extolled the bombing of the Ethiopians: "I dropped an aerial torpedo right in the center of a cluster of tribesmen, and the group opened up like a flowering rose...