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...willing to include in the treaty ban because at present there is no known practical way of detecting them (see box next page). Said Tsarapkin: Russia will agree to a treaty banning only tests above the threshold of detection-provided that the U.S. and Britain agree to a "voluntary" moratorium on subthreshold tests while experts work out better detection techniques...
...will test no more nuclear deterrent weapons while Dwight Eisenhower is still in the White House, even if negotiations bog down. The testing moratorium has run 17 long months already. Ike is not likely to break it before the summit conference in May, his mission to Moscow in June, the political conventions in July, or during the campaign months...
...importance. The controversy is intense. Every time a masterpiece emerges from the laboratory looking strangely changed, someone objects. But the museums can do as they like, and most of them favor restoration that includes stringent cleaning. Artists, on the whole, oppose it. Art News recently called for a moratorium on it. And last week Manhattan Painter Frank Mason was rounding up artists' signatures for a petition demanding a moratorium on all art restoration work at the Metropolitan Museum. Says Mason bitterly: "The least safe place for your paintings is a museum; they will be skinned alive...
...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 tests. "An important statement, which will be studied care fully," commented U.S. spokesmen...
...witnesses for and against capital punishment. When the final witness wound up his testimony, past midnight, the committee got down to its business, and by a vote of 8 to 7 blackjacked Brown's proposal (amended at the last minute to call for a 3½-year moratorium rather than outright abolition of capital punishment...