The Press: Blood & Water

New York Times Columnist (and foreign correspondent) C. L. Sulzberger was shaken with despair. "So terribly much has happened," he wrote last week, "so terribly much is happening, and all with such terrible speed, that it is difficult to foresee where we are headed. The men who fancy themselves in control of events are no longer really in control. Meanwhile, the steady thud of nuclear explosions deafens the eastern atmosphere while spinning far beyond and trembling below the rocky formations of the West."

In his moment of doubt, Timesman Sulzberger was not alone among...

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