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Art Cox made the op-ed page of the NewYork Times recently with an excellent comment on the folly of pretending that we or anyone else can win a nuclear exchange. He wrote in part, "American strategic planners have been thinking the unthinkable for more than 25 years: trying; to make nuclear warfare controllable and even winnable. The result has been an escalating nuclear arms race that has increasingly reduced our security and endangered our survival."

Art ends this piece with specific suggestions of what we ought to do and finishes with this sober admonition. "And in the end, if the superpowers cannot find a more stable basis for our competition [than nuclear weapons] we probably won't survive." Art is with the Brookings Institute in Washington, D.C., and is the author, most recently, of RussianRoulette The Superpower Game.

As perhaps most of you are aware, the College is trying to put together a coherent medical institution on the Hanover Plain, made up of the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, the Hitchcock Clinic, the Dartmouth Medical School, and the Veterans' Administration Hospital in White River Junction. The new creation will be called the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. Among the prestigious members of the board of this new creation is our own Alan H. Britton Jr. Al, president of the Britton Lumber Company, Ely Vt., is the vice chairman of the Vermont Coalition of Health and a former trustee of the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital. He joined the board of the Hitchcock Clinic upon establishment of the latter as a non-profit organization earlier this year.

For those of you fearful of the state of our class's financial strength, take heart. Class president Dick Rugen writes, "Leo Caproni [class treasurer] reports a very good response to the boost in class dues;, and to this date has received about $3,660, which results in a balance of about $6,000 in the treasury. However, I neglected to ask how much we owe for subscriptions to the ALUMNI MAGAZINE! Old age has caught up with me! He also told me that the class contribution of funds for books to the library in memory of deceased classmates had been discontinued due to our depleted treasury. He will now find out how to reinstate this program and bring it up to date - also increasing the amount if necessary to reflect current book prices."

If you, too, have been in the Times, or whatever, and would like equal exposure here, just holler. Your secretary will get you up front.

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