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With that age-old feminine talent for ferreting out secrets, mothers, wives and girl friends orbiting around the U.S. Missile Test Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla. got the word one day last week that it was testing time for another big one. All week explosions had been going off all over the world-the U.S. A-bomb tests in Nevada, the British H-bomb tests on Christmas Island in the Pacific-and Cape Canaveral was about to put on the most up-to-date performance of them all. Would it be the first test of the Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile...
...discuss this question intelligently," Eisenhower replied, "only in the light of the age-old truth that the security position of a country is not determined wholly by the troops that it keeps. It is determined also by their economic, their spiritual, their intellectual strength, as well as their purely military." Britain, said he, in a mixed metaphor that fascinated the experts (see PRESS), "has had a really heroic row to hoe in trying to keep its economic nose above water." So the British are "trying ... to cut their cloth, you might say, according to what they...
EVERY Israeli artist faces an age-old dilemma...
...people, the Nixons drove 20 miles from Accra to the hill town of Aburi. The colorfully dressed tribesmen assigned Nixon a mahogany throne. Pat, dandling a native infant on her knee, sat beside him on a smaller throne, watching as the tribal drums thrummed and the natives danced their age-old rituals...
...fashion. But inexorably the tides of fashion have rolled on their way, now exposing a pleasant vista with a plunging neckline, then snapping it shut; now swelling bottoms into the massive promontories of the bustle, then strapping them down into the sleek foothills of the girdle, in an age-old and tireless coquetry with the male...