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...bigger blast from a smaller package. Special attention will be paid to the nuclear warhead of the Nike Zeus, the missile being developed by the Army to intercept enemy warheads as they hurtle down on the U.S. To find out how the blast of a Nike Zeus will affect a missile at high altitudes, the scientists will make at least one test of the weapon on the warhead of an Atlas, one of the prime missiles in the U.S. arsenal...
...Jacqueline Kennedy and Empress Farah (see THE NATION ). "Be sure," Fledgling Hostess Caroline Kennedy told Mother, "to show her Robin's grave." The beloved pet bird (a canary despite its name) had been laid to rest just a day before, and the visiting queen stifled a smile to affect fitting bereavement. Most fawned-over fauna on the landscape, however, was John F. Kennedy Jr., 1½, who sprang up in his perambulator to pay court to the dazzling empress, but adamantly said, "No" when she proffered a daffodil...
Perkins agreed that any changes that might take place would affect all the Houses and concluded that "the chance of Lowell's getting off the central kitchen are slim." Echoing Trottenberg's comments, Perkins said that the problem involved in installing and operating an independent kitchen "is a matter of capital, since it would require a building project of considerable dimension...
...handle it alone. They need love that I alone cannot give them. They are interested in football and scouting. I cannot satisfy them." Said Captain James Stamper, a paratrooper now in Italy: "The bad thing is not how my wife or I feel about it, but how it will affect our three children...
Furthermore, any structure providing reasonable protection against fallout also has some degree of inherent protection against low intensities of blast or heat. Where inexpensive actions could increase resistance to such effects, the Committee believes they should be taken, especially where they affect the continuued integrity of the fallout shelters themselves...