Mr. Harold C. Schonberg, music critic for the New York Times, heard strange melodies at a piano recital by Van Cliburn on October 4, and duly reported, next day: “Mr. Cliburn apparently prefaces all of his concerts with the national anthem, and in that he is alone among American solo musicians. He seems to be trying to prove something—but what?” Heh heh heh. Some old fogey-types just don’t dig the new music.:
Twenty-four hours after the Senate ratified the Treaty of Moscow came the news of a mysterious 500-kiloton blast in the Antarctic back on August 3. Earl H. Voss, who broke the story in the Washington Evening Star, reported that a government spokesman admitted the news had been delayed until after the Senate had acted. A recent issue of the magazine Missiles and Rockets now reveals that one of the possible results of high-yield nuclear explosions is electromagnetic pulse phenomena capable of crippling, at long range, the electronic mechanisms of missiles so that they cannot be fired from their silos. Have the Soviets developed an anti-ballistic missile system that could in this way wipe out a major part of our “second-strike” force? These considerations, it now turns out, were at the heart of Air Force opposition to the test ban As SAC’s General Thomas L. Power told a closed session of the Senate Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee this past summer: “The point is I think we must find out. We must determine whether or not these things are true…. The treaty is not in the best interests of the U.S.” But when General Power’s testimony was released, every reference to the crucial question of electromagnetic energy had been deleted.
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