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Last week the U.S. learned some details of lithium hydride (or equivalent) explosions that had been set off-by the Russians and by the Americans. It learned that the force and horror of atomic weapons had entered a new dimension. It saw by television that the first full-dress H-blast (Operation Ivy) had turned the mid-Pacific sandspit named Elugelab into a submarine crater. While the shock and the prayer that Dr. Thirring had felt were both present in the communication of the news, the U.S. was given-and received-the information as calmly as it might hear...
...Wildly Wrong? Emotional reaction along these lines was sharply opposed to the reaction of the U.S. Government, which knew a year and a half ago most of the facts that the public learned last week about the H-bomb. The Government, working with these facts, did not recoil in horror and abandon the new weapon. Instead, it built upon its H-bomb knowledge the Dulles policy of possible "massive retaliation" against further Communist acts of aggression...
From an enclave in the Met, Tess watches in horror as one of the horsemen becomes transfixed on some sort of decoding device...
...matador Mehdi Savalli, the up-and-coming star of Spanish bullfighting: How can Time, a respected magazine, publish a story on such a despicably brutal pastime? Its fans are sadistic, inhumane and intent on continuing a medieval tradition of blood sport. Shame on you for glorifying such horror. Nowhere in the article was there any mention of the ethical debate over bullfighting or the Spanish cities that have banned it! Ingrid Martens Brussels
...Jackson had signed on to the project, and the even more surprising news that New Line Cinema had agreed to bring back the film's original title (after switching it to Pacific Flight 121). It was enough to send online movie fans, particularly those steeped in the subculture of horror films, scrambling to share the news with their friends that Snakes was not just a hilarious myth, but would in fact be slithering soon to theaters nationwide. The frenzy was fueled when New Line decided to reach out to its fans by making changes to the script based on their...