J. L. Johnson on Cold Dawn

Cold Dawn: The Story of SALT By John Newhouse Holt, 302 pp., $7.95 Let me say that on laying out eight greens for this book I felt decidedly ripped off. It is so shabbily got up that the binding and printing of Hong Kong bootlegs sparkle and flash by comparison. I’m told even Newhouse’s old boss J. W. Fulbright consigns it to the shelf down low behind the gin-chest hidden from view beside A World Restored and A Rebours.

Still, if your dentist hasn’t saved the six New Yorker installments and you don’t wish to wait for the paperback, it is worth the price. It is the most comprehensive account of SALT I we are ever likely to get and the most accurate until the major players themselves tell all. Newhouse, you see, had settled upon him the unique benefice of substantial and sustained access to much inside material. Which of the major players was most responsible for this philanthropy is doubted by few in Washington.

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Cold Dawn: The Story of SALT By John Newhouse Holt, 302 pp., $7.95 Let me say that on laying out eight greens for this book I felt decidedly ripped off. It is so shabbily got up that the binding and printing of Hong Kong bootlegs sparkle and flash by comparison. I’m told even Newhouse’s old boss J. W. Fulbright consigns it to the shelf down low behind the gin-chest hidden from view beside A World Restored and A Rebours.

Still, if your dentist hasn’t saved the six New Yorker installments and you don’t wish to wait for the paperback, it is worth the price. It is the most comprehensive account of SALT I we are ever likely to get and the most accurate until the major players themselves tell all. Newhouse, you see, had settled upon him the unique benefice of substantial and sustained access to much inside material. Which of the major players was most responsible for this philanthropy is doubted by few in Washington.