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...implied threat of nuclear superiority no longer works in most situations, because the Russians have achieved virtual nuclear parity with the U.S. The old way of achieving political goals through economic aid is still important but increasingly ineffective in countries stirred up to a new nationalist pitch. Precise and quick military intervention (as in Lebanon in 1958 and the Dominican Republic in 1965) can never be ruled out, but is much harder to bring off now largely because of the fears stirred by Viet...
Antonio Como (José Luis López Vásquez) is a once powerful industrialist reduced by an automobile accident to a virtual vegetable in his own garden. His incapacity is pitifully childlike: to entice him to drink his daily milkshake, a servant must first bare her breast. But his mind still functions with chaotic clarity as he fantasizes the possible consequences of his helplessness. He sees himself in his wheelchair careening wildly across the quiet greensward and into the swimming pool; mailed lancers from the picture that covers his office wall safe appear before...
...conscious policy of discrimination on the Center's part against leftist thinkers; the radical approach to foreign policy is a new and highly rare development within social science, and it is the paucity of this approach, rather than overt antagonism to it, that probably accounts for the virtual nonexistence of radicals within the Center's confines...
Vertical lines and a virtual absence of windows give the crisply detailed tower a powerful, brooding air. But the building clearly states its purpose. Devoted to research labs, it is the place where agronomists conduct prolonged experiments in biology and biochemistry, which require precise climate control as well as immunity from such outside contaminants as sunlight. At first the scientists objected to the idea of working in windowless labs, Franzen recalls, "but when we checked into the labs in which they were working, we found that most of them had covered up the windows with cardboard." From the scientists...
...Army has been somewhat slow in responding to its critics. Last Monday, Brigadier General W.W. Stone Jr., Director of Chemical and Nuclear Operations, told a nervous Senate subcommittee that the Army would never again carry defective or old nerve weaponry around the country by train, a virtual admission that the plan was not a sound one. Called on to support the Army plan, the White House environmental expert, Russell Train, cited the need to dispose of the rockets (earlier Senate witnesses had testified that the propellant was becoming unstable and that there was evidence of small leaks), but he admitted...