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Although there was a strong national sense of relief when Kennedy finally announced that he was "doing something" about Cuba, tension mounted almost unbearably in the hours that followed. What would happen? Would Khrushchev press the thermonuclear button? On Tuesday night, Kennedy signed a proclamation outlining the quarantine. The first indication of Russia's reaction came when a few Soviet freighters changed course away from Cuba. But others steamed on, and the moment of showdown came closer...
...private: "Knowing you have to die, imagine how fantastic it would be to have the power to take everyone else with you. The untold billions of them. They are murderees: born to be murdered and don't know it. And the person with his finger on the button is the one who knows...
...into specifics, he announces himself as backing "a voice in the state's business for every citizen. I'm for the simple but powerful precept of government with the people." Like McNichols, Love is a heavily decorated veteran of World War II; he is addicted to one-button blue suits, button-down collars, and 18-hour cam paign days...
Across the Formosa Strait, meanwhile, a somewhat better-known woman figured prominently in the Nationalists' celebration of Double Ten Day, marking the Oct. 10, 1911. uprising against the Man-chus. At the offices of Taiwan Television Enterprise. Mme. Chiang Kai-shek pressed a control button with an elegantly gloved finger to inaugurate commercial television on the island. Formosa is starting out with 3,000 sets and four channels, a telling testimonial to the island's prosperity...
...ring as they go. When they finish, a gong sounds at five second intervals. Later, red lights flash warning, and a still more insistent gong begins to sound. When the flashers and gong cease, anyone caught inside has one minute to hit any of a dozen crash buttons located inside the tunnel. Pushing the button immediately shuts down the machine...