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...nuclear attack? In the ivy-covered Army Institute of Research at Washington's Walter Reed Medical Center, the grim subject came up for review last week at a conference on the "Management of Mass Casualties." Present: Army medical officers, representatives of federal and private health agencies. The conference consensus: nuclear warfare calls for a new definition of the old concept of battlefield treatment...
From Chicago, U.S.A. came a turbulent uproar. In a year when pundits were talking about "the American consensus" and the "reign of moderation," the Democratic immoderates charged full tilt into the nominating arena and set up a clangor that all but drowned out the normal sounds of the nation. The planning for next week's Republican Convention seemed to fall off to a whisper. And even the extraordinary White House meeting of the President, the Secretary of State and congressional leaders on the Suez crisis (see Foreign Relations) took on some aspects of a sideshow because the top Democrats...
...coming to life in anticipation of Truman's arrival: a heated dispute was under way over whether he should be met at the station by a white or a black limousine (available for convention use are 150 Fords, 60 Mercurys and, for the VIPiest VIPs, 15 Lincolns). The consensus, as expressed by a member of the host committee : "Mr. Truman is not Marilyn Monroe. I think he should be met in black...
...outline would perhaps suggest a tragedy. Yet Ibsen's title is well chosen, and the play even has a happy ending for everyone. Contrary to the consensus, there was much humor in Ibsen himself and in his plays, though in the latter it resulted more from comic characters than from comic situations. Still, hearty laughter is absent; and disturbing arriere-pensees always lurk in the offing...
...Supercharged experts from all over the world met at Oak Ridge, Tenn. to discuss advantages of supervoltage X rays (2,000,000 to 45 million volts) and radio-cobalt devices for treating cancer. The consensus: in many types of cancer they are no better than old-fashioned X rays; in some cases they offer only slight improvement. But they can markedly increase the cure rate in cancers of the mouth, nasal sinuses, brain, esophagus, parotid gland...