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From the New York Times, January 13, 1962, in an article on the avalanche disaster in Peru: “Ambassador James Loeb of the United States flew over the area yesterday with relief supplies, but was unable to land the Mau Mau terrorist group.” Obviously a typo: the Times was thinking of UN troops.

There’s a man in Florida who has announced that he is, in this peaceful year 1962, about to undertake a dangerous campaign for his fatherland, to do or die in an effort to establish our military capacity in an area as yet disputed. And yet where are the Defenders of Peace and World Rule who are willing to attach the epithets of chauvinist, superpatriot, irresponsible increaser of world tensions, militarist, nationalist, and extremist to that dedicated young man, John Glenn, astronaut?

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From the New York Times, January 13, 1962, in an article on the avalanche disaster in Peru: “Ambassador James Loeb of the United States flew over the area yesterday with relief supplies, but was unable to land the Mau Mau terrorist group.” Obviously a typo: the Times was thinking of UN troops.

There’s a man in Florida who has announced that he is, in this peaceful year 1962, about to undertake a dangerous campaign for his fatherland, to do or die in an effort to establish our military capacity in an area as yet disputed. And yet where are the Defenders of Peace and World Rule who are willing to attach the epithets of chauvinist, superpatriot, irresponsible increaser of world tensions, militarist, nationalist, and extremist to that dedicated young man, John Glenn, astronaut?