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...Hawaii: "I can't even tell you if we've got any Band-Aids out there." Arranged Reaction. Such secrecy precautions seemed superfluous. Most of the world's peoples were well aware that it was the Soviet Union that last fall broke a three-year test moratorium and made such advances as to endanger the world's balance of nuclear power. They also knew that Russia's Khrushchev had rejected repeated U.S. offers to forgo testing if he would only sign a meaningful no-test agreement, controlled by on-site inspectors...
...nuclear competition, by exploding 120 megatons last fall, Khrushchev merely goaded the U.S. to end its own three-year moratorium on testing. Even Khrushchev's compelling space triumphs have paled since the U.S. gave the world a ringside seat for John Glenn's flight...
...Geneva last week continued the game by trying every conceivable stalling tactic to postpone the tests. At the 17-nation disarmament parley, Chief Soviet Delegate Valerian Zorin insisted that the U.S. delay at least until after Easter. U.S. Delegate Arthur Dean recalled that the Russian had already violated one moratorium with their huge tests last fall. Said he: "We will not be burned twice by the same fire...
...Would Set Us Back." During the 1958-61 test moratorium, Ogle worked on the AEC's peaceful Project Rover, seeking development of nuclear rocket propulsion, and represented the AEC at Geneva test-ban talks. Returning to weapons research when President Kennedy ordered resumption of underground testing in Nevada, Ogle was recommended for the Christmas Island job by his longtime boss, Alvin Graves, test director at Los Alamos. (Graves has been one of the leading figures in nuclear testing, once was critically ill from exposure to a radiation dose of 200 roentgens; he recovered, but has been slowed down since...
...clamorous casbah of pitchmen and commercials which plead, bleat, pressure, whistle, groan and shout. Too many stations have turned themselves into publicly franchised jukeboxes." And, unfortunately, "radio stations do not fade away, they just multiply." To consider everything from a tightening of regulations over radio commercials to a possible moratorium on licenses for new AM stations, he proposed an "informal, face to face, shirtsleeves working conference" between the FCC and radio executives...