The Week

■ The Post Office has delivered a postcard to a man in Keystone, Indiana 22 years late. In New Orleans, Delenore Kelley proposed to Minnie Bennet. Minnie said no, so Delenore pulled a gun and stole all her money ($51). Daytime TV is back. The Internal Revenue Service is going to tax bows and arrows next year. A new Japanese sect called the Church of Perfect Liberty holds that the way to self-improvement is golf. David and Julie Eisenhower recently drove to Nebraska to visit friends. A British doctor, arguing that “we do not burn sewage,” proposes recycling human bodies as fertilizer. The New School for Social Research in New York is offering a course called “How to Fool All the People Some of the Time.” Which reminds us—when, oh when, do we get more hearings?

■ When U.S. negotiators, during the first round of SALT, granted the Soviets superiority in both the number and size of missiles, they did so, we were told, because we had MIRVs and the Soviets didn’t. The capabilities of both sides were supposed to be different but equal. Several days ago Defense Secretary James Schlesinger announced that the Soviets had MIRVed—mastered the technique of placing multiple independently targeted warheads on one missile. By 1979, he said, the Soviets should equal us in MIRV warheads, making the U.S.- USSR capabilities not only different but very unequal— it’s estimated that the Soviets will have a throw-weight advantage of four times over the U.S. The Defense Secretary also said the Soviets are developing four new missiles that combined with MIRV could lead the Soviet Union to “a clear preponderance of counterforce capabilities” over the U.S. On to SALT II!

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■ The Post Office has delivered a postcard to a man in Keystone, Indiana 22 years late. In New Orleans, Delenore Kelley proposed to Minnie Bennet. Minnie said no, so Delenore pulled a gun and stole all her money ($51). Daytime TV is back. The Internal Revenue Service is going to tax bows and arrows next year. A new Japanese sect called the Church of Perfect Liberty holds that the way to self-improvement is golf. David and Julie Eisenhower recently drove to Nebraska to visit friends. A British doctor, arguing that “we do not burn sewage,” proposes recycling human bodies as fertilizer. The New School for Social Research in New York is offering a course called “How to Fool All the People Some of the Time.” Which reminds us—when, oh when, do we get more hearings?

■ When U.S. negotiators, during the first round of SALT, granted the Soviets superiority in both the number and size of missiles, they did so, we were told, because we had MIRVs and the Soviets didn’t. The capabilities of both sides were supposed to be different but equal. Several days ago Defense Secretary James Schlesinger announced that the Soviets had MIRVed—mastered the technique of placing multiple independently targeted warheads on one missile. By 1979, he said, the Soviets should equal us in MIRV warheads, making the U.S.- USSR capabilities not only different but very unequal— it’s estimated that the Soviets will have a throw-weight advantage of four times over the U.S. The Defense Secretary also said the Soviets are developing four new missiles that combined with MIRV could lead the Soviet Union to “a clear preponderance of counterforce capabilities” over the U.S. On to SALT II!