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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...from the room next door, where the Big Three were meeting on nuclear test bans. Russia's Semyon Tsarapkin, asking for a special Saturday session for the announcement, said the Soviet Union was willing to sign a treaty proposed last month by President Eisenhower banning all nuclear tests except those underground experiments too small to be easily detected-if a "voluntary" moratorium without controls was accepted on subterranean tests. It was a clever move, for though the U.S. has long opposed any test ban that cannot be supervised, Brit ain is strongly in favor of compromise on small underground...
Bureaucracy of Death. Except for the record of horror they unfold, the chapters that follow might serve as codicils to Parkinson's Law on bureaucratic IN-box fighting. One bureau wanted to save able-bodied Jews for munitions work; another wanted to slaughter them to the last man, woman or child. Bales of barbed wire were stacked in supply depots; yet Hoess finally had to send out scavenging patrols to filch what he needed...
Finally retracting his nails, he promised to restore straight entertainment to the show and "give up Winchell and Kilgallen for Lent." Ten times over he had said about all there was to say, except how glad he was to be working again for NBWC...
Even if Pioneer V does not report except on its outward journey, it will yield information of great value. Many earth satellites have reported on conditions near the earth. Six shots toward the moon (three U.S., three Russian) have delivered data about space near the earth-moon system. But space far from any planet is still unexplored. This outer space is presumably traversed by vast clouds of material shot out of the sun, and they may behave differently when not near a planet. Cosmic rays and micrometeorites may behave differently, too. There may be stray magnetic fields wandering free through...
More Than a Pulitzer. Mad scientists, Critic Amis notes, are no longer well regarded. In fact, scientists are often credited with possessing most of mankind's available sanity. (Many S.F. authors and readers have had technical training, and the literature contains more than a hint of mutual admiration.) Except when plots involve genetics, sex is treated with spinsterly distaste; the earthier urges, concludes Amis, are best ignored...