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Playwright Paddy Chayefsky, who wrote the script for Emily, obviously intended a black comedy in the style of Dr. Strangelove, a savage sneer at war and all it bloody works. But if Strangelove with cheery ferocity reminded its audiences that every cloud has a strontium lining. Emily in confused conclusion managers to suggest that every human value has a wormy caramel center...
Without Question. Flight 773 had plunged to earth. At 6:51 a.m., a United Air Lines pilot made his radio report: "There's a black cloud of smoke coming up through the undercast. Looks like oil or gasoline fire." At the scene, investigators found the cockpit had been demolished. But on a bit of tubing from the pilot's seat, they discovered a small, lead-scarred dent caused by a bullet. Said the report: "Measurements place the bullet indentation directly in line of fire between the captain's back and anyone standing in the aisleway between...
...which takes away from the Governor's Council the power to confirm nearly all appointments, passed easily but on the basis of an irrelevant consideration: the indictment of three current and one former councilor. The logic which demands that the Council be abolished when its members come under a cloud presumably should have called for the abolition of the State Police after its commissioner was indicted, but that has not happened. Furthermore, since it takes two to give a bribe, one can hardly expect that the practice of buying one's appointment will cease just because the storekeeper has changed...
Clicking Counters. Except for describing the bomb as weak, U.S. authorities at first released no figures, and the Weather Bureau, which traced the radioactive cloud, reported its directional progress only, making no comment on its intensity except to say that it was not strong enough to be at all dangerous. But in bomb-bitten Japan, where radiation watching is something of a national hobby, rooftop Geiger counters started clicking ominously. Scientists caught rain water to measure its activity, and jets brought samples down from the sky. About 30 hours after the explosion the radiation count at Niigata, 180 miles north...
...shrouded and silhouetted in a conical cloud of blue smoke stands above his audience in the crowded hall, excitedly gesticulating and clutching a microphone. He is about to introduce The Candidate of The Party. The shouting voice concludes, "...the next govnah of our state, Francis X. Bellotti...