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...bomb exploding in a harbor and drenching a city with "hot" spray) there was little to fear from radioactivity. The bomb's initial burst of gamma rays affected few people. If the bomb exploded high in the air (the approved position), its radioactive fission products were carried aloft and dissipated in the upper atmosphere. When they sifted down thousands of miles away, they could be detected by sensitive instruments, but their activity was far too weak to damage human wellbeing...
...with his own understanding of the global situation. And at age 66 he has made a discovery that Grandfather John Watson Foster (President Benjamin Harrison's Secretary of State) would find hard to believe: a modern-day Secretary of State has more time for undisturbed thought and concentration aloft in an airplane than he has in his paneled, guarded office in Foggy Bottom...
...horror-comic publishers announced he was stopping publication of the books in response "to appeals by American parents." Entertaining Comics Publisher William M. Gaines had been a star witness before the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency. He had insisted his comic-book cover of an ax-wielding man holding aloft the severed head of a blonde was "in good taste, [but] would be in bad taste if the head were held a little higher so the neck would show blood dripping out." Gaines last week stopped his own flow of 2,000,000 horror comics a month, plans to substitute...
...exact altitude reached. Best guesstimates: altitude, 90,000 ft. (17 miles) above sea level, probably reached by Bell's XiA rocket aircraft. An added feather in the Air Force's cap: a B-47 jet bomber, refueled in flight, has set a new jet endurance record, staying aloft for 35 hours, traveling 17,000 miles nonstop...
...smallest heroines in recent fiction: a four-inch china doll. Impunity, like Ibsen's Nora, rebels against the doll's house, so Author Godden (The River, Black Narcissus) treats her to a high old time as the mascot of a bunch of boys who send her aloft with a toy balloon, spin her on a Catherine wheel and race her across a pond in a toy yacht...