Word: attacker
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Danger No. 1 is what Herter called "war by miscalculation" - the possibility, for example, that one side might try to launch a surprise attack in a mistaken belief that the other side was preparing one. To guard against the miscalculation danger, the U.S. is working toward "safe guards against surprise attack," including "aerial and mobile ground inspection." During a time of crisis, inspection teams might prevent a nuclear war by "helping to verify that neither side was preparing a surprise attack upon the other." Danger No. 2 arises from the prospect that as time goes by more and more nations...
...close to $10 million (from a horsecar and trolley fortune inherited from her grandfather William C. Whitney, Secretary of the Navy in Grover Cleveland's Cabinet), saddled the winners of 1,532 races, including the peerless Golden Miller, winner of the Grand National in 1934; of a heart attack; in Chalfont St. Giles, England...
Died. Igor V. Kurchatov, 57, Soviet physicist who began tentative nuclear studies in the 1930s, ended up directing the fierce-driving organization that produced the Soviet atomic bomb in 1949, the hydrogen bomb in 1953; of a heart attack; in Moscow. The first Soviet atomic explosion came as a shock to the West largely because it was ignorant of the years of preparation of Kurchatov and his colleagues. Kurchatov, in fact, boasted that Russia invented the first real hydrogen bomb, since the thermonuclear device exploded earlier by the U.S. was too large to serve as a weapon...
Died. Jennie Goldstein, 64, actress in the Yiddish theater for 57 years (Slaves of Luxury, Should a Mother Tell?), revered by her fans as the "Ethel Barrymore of Second Avenue"; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...pace, greasepainted eyeglasses, a cigar that was sometimes in his mouth, sometimes flying through the air, a leer that "lit up the whole theater"; livened the dated comedies of Sheridan and Congreve with such earthy humor that critics acclaimed him the "funniest clown in the world"; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. After struggling to the top through the rich medium of vaudeville, circus, burlesque, Bobby ad-libbed through a series of revivals that were not worth reviving without him. In Victor Herbert's Sweethearts, he confided to the audience: "Never was a thin plot so complicated." When informed...