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Angus Wilson is a social satirist with an itchy trigger finger. The novel is his shooting gallery, and the characters he sets up as targets not only have clay feet but clay minds and clay hearts as well. Anglo-Saxon Attitudes is his longest, cleverest and most annihilating display of literary marksmanship to date, and after it is all over, what hangs in the air is the acrid odor of an unrelenting misanthropy...
...Tactical Air Command, told a Senate investigating subcommittee that under present capabilities, the Air Force could not move a combat-loaded division from the U.S. to the Far East in less than "a week or ten days." The implication: the transports needed to move the 101st in trigger-quick time may simply not be available...
...might eventually go to the United Nations. But whatever the technical course might be, it was clearer than ever before that the U.S. will have to play the most significant role in any solution that might be reached. "The gun is loaded, aimed, and the finger is on the trigger," said a neutral observer in crisis-torn Cairo last week, adding gratefully, "but the U.S. is the safety catch...
...would like to stress distinctly that for the time being I consider it unsuitable to shift the center of gravity to atomic weapons." His reasoning: what happened in Korea might happen in Germany, and to counter an East German invasion of West Germany with nuclear weapons would almost certainly "trigger an intercontinental rocket war. I am of the opinion that it is of special importance to localize small conflicts, and for this we need divisions with conventional weapons...
...Trigger-quick on wisecracks, some of them corny even for a simple-minded oater, this horseplay opera is a Technicolored remake of the 1936 Bing Crosby musical, Rhythm on the Range. Its chief assets: four new songs by Sammy Cahn and James Van Heusen, two leading ladies (Lori Nelson and Jackie Loughery), and a personable prize bull named Cuddles, who provides a beefy relief from the Martin and Lewis brand...