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...Dulles talks almost blithely of using tactical nuclear weapons both as a deterrent to aggression and a force to meet it. The only way to employ such weapons would be to have them already on the scene--a feat which would take a prophet to arrange--or to transport them there. The latter is made more difficult by the fact that transportation facilities have continually been cut in order to keep bomber and missile programs untouched. The former would require not only a sixth sense and an unparalleled intelligence agency, but also the manpower to maintain whatever weapons...
...quarter of the population, wear false teeth (i.e., upper or lower plates, or both), and about 10 million more use partial dentures. For the great majority, regular removable plates are sufficient, but others find ordinary false teeth uncomfortable and irritating. For these "denture neurotics" one possible solution is a feat of tiny-scaled civil engineering known as the dental implant, i.e., fastening the denture to the jawbone to hold it in place permanently...
...center of town, surrounded the pro-Batista national police headquarters and demanded surrender. The police refused. While two rebel navy planes circled overhead, the rebels charged, and after a vicious fight that littered the street with dead, the building fell. By noon rebels controlled the city-the first such feat they have been able to pull off since last November, when they held the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba for a few hours in a badly timed prelude to Castro's seaborne invasion from Mexico. It was also the first big show of strength outside the Santiago area...
...hour. They had topped Grand Pilastre's crest by 10 a.m., climbed another eight hours over easier ground. At 6 p.m. they scrambled at last atop the great peak of Mont Blanc. They descended by an easier route. Next day, as European newspapers front-paged their feat, Walter Bonatti went skiing for exercise...
Last week L'Unità folded its once-thriving editions in industrial Turin and Genoa, announced that its sole surviving regional edition in Milan will now serve all three cities-a feat comparable to making over a Pittsburgh daily for readers in Philadelphia and Baltimore. Beyond that, the paper was reduced to running a Page One jeremiad by Party Boss Palmiro Togliatti, imploring the faithful to dig deep in their pockets to save L'Unità from "extermination...