Reviews of new research public agencies and private institutions "Nuclear Power Issues and Choices" Report of the Nuclear Energy Policy Study Group (sponsored by the Ford Foundation, administered by the MITRE Corporation), Ballinger Publishing Co., 17 Dunster St., Cambridge, Mass. 02138. Although the nation's oil and natural gas supplies will be seriously de-pleted before the year 2000, a "mix" of coal-burning generators and uran- ium-powered nuclear plants (light-water reactors)...
Edwin 0.Reischauer
In 1945 Japan lay in ruins, a defeated, helpless pariah among nations-its cities destroyed, its industry at a standstill, its people exhausted, confused, and demoralized. Yet in only one generation the country has risen like the proverbial phoenix to become, next to the colossi of the United States and the Soviet Union, the great- est economic power in the world, with a remarkably free and stable society, an efficiently functioning democratic system of government, and a vibrant...
PEACE CHILDREN
Seven-Year-Old
He holds a pistol in each hand, he has a toy tommy gun hanging on his chest.
"How does your mother feel about these weapons?"
"She bought them for me."
"And why?"
"Because of the bad people."
"And who is good?"
"Lenin."
"Lenin? Who is he?"
He thinks hard, but does not know what to answer. "You don't know who Lenin is?" "The captain."
Eleven-Year-Old
"I've been el...
1928, despite a prominent Republican's re-mark that "We haven't time to monkey around with novelties," Democrats and Republicans were ready to spend a total of more than $1 million for commercial radio time. But not until the mid-1940s did the first detailed examination of ra- dio's impact on politics appear-in THE PEOPLE'S CHOICE: How the Voter Makes Up His Mind in a Presidential Campaign Paul F.Lazarsfeld et al. (Columbia, 1944, later eds. 1948-68, cloth & paper).
The case in point...