For the lucky few who bought tickets weeks ago, the coming week will include what will probably be two of the most memorable events of the Boston concert season: two piano recitals by Sviatoslav Richter.

The BACH SOCIETY ORCHESTRA will give its second concert of the season in Paine Hall on Sunday afternoon at 3:30. Conductor Joel Lazar has included on his program Vivaldi's Concerto for Orchestra ("per la solennita di S. Lorenzo"), Milhaud's Symphony No. 1 for small orchestra, and Mozart's Posthorn Serenade.

After its trip to New York and other cities, the BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA returns to Symphony Hall for its regular weekend concerts. This afternoon at 2:15 (if you get in line about two hours early you may be able to get 60 rush seats), and to- stance, leads one to believe that the Soviet rulers could be brought to accept an agreement to suspend nuclear weapons tests and to accept a system of inspection and control for that purpose.

This approach aims not simply at protecting our freedom but also at enhancing the chances for peace. Indeed it is consistent with accepting the premise that nuclear war not Communism is the greatest danger facing the world. It rejects the false choice of those asking for unilateral nuclear disarmament, and holds rather that the struggle for peace and the struggle for freedom go inseparably together.

6. One Final Caution

We agree that the Russians are fearful of general nuclear war and wish to reduce the danger of it. They may do this by accepting arms control agreements or by responsive unilateral acts.

But there is also another alternative open to them: this is so to demoralize the Western Powers and their public opinion as to get their way without any reciprocal concessions, unilateral or multilateral. By threatening to send rockets against the United States if we harm Cuba or against our allies if they let us mount U2 flights from their soil; by putting the squeeze on Berlin; by wild out bursts at the United Nations which may suggest to many people that Krushchev is as mad as Hitler--in these and other ways, the Soviet rulers may so terrify and disorganize the peoples of the West that they will compel their governments to give in without reciprocal concessions.

This possibility requires us firmly to maintain our deterrent power. But we can do this and at the same time pursue arms control--and if it is successful, measures of more general disarament--by unilateral and multilateral action. It is time that we called on prime resources of a free society--imagination, flexibility, inventiveness--and made a great effort to get through to the Russians, and bring them to action which is as much in their interest our own