On Feb 22, 2011, at 12:15 AM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote:
> He was an extraordinarily intelligent, patient, brave, and hard working man. And if he said that the possibility of nuclear annihilation had something to do with the mind cast of the period, I believe him.
Of course it did. I remember the Cuban missile crisis - I was 9 or 10. The local paper in NJ was full of maps showing zones of nuclear destruction, concentric circles radiating out from ground zero in Manhattan. It scared me. Maybe living out in the cornfields one was insulated.
Doug