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While plain civilians watched with fascinated concern, Army and Navy men got ready to explode the fourth atomic bomb. If the thing acted in the pattern of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, they had picked a good, safe spot-Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, over 4,000 mi. from the U.S. shore. Wildlife lovers were disturbed. But Hanson Baldwin pointed out in the New York Times: "Great numbers of fish and birds will be killed . . . but they will die that man may live...
...agreement is finally approved in Washington and London, it will end the current transatlantic rate war, set a pattern for future international air pacts...
Until John Lewis burst onto the scene, the Miami council meeting had followed the familiar, doldrum-ridden pattern. The members-whose ages average 63-met only until noon, then sunned themselves (fully clothed) on the roof garden or the second-floor veranda, where they watched Biscayne Boulevard's traffic, talked about old times, and cursed C.I.O...
Certain that control will remain in the family (through the voting stock), the Fords are already laying plans to fit the younger brothers into the dynastic pattern. Benson Ford, now 26, has just been released from the Army, will probably be settled down in labor relations. Breezy, talkative, he liked formal education even less than Henry, spent only a year at Princeton. After his draft board rejected him (he is virtually blind in one eye), he managed to enlist anyway, ended up as a lieutenant. .Billy, 20, was in the Navy's V-5 program, likes to tinker with...
...partners on the side that won it. Debtors, most of them for decades, they suddenly found themselves too rich for comfort, with some $4 billion in credits on the exchanges of the world. What they would do with it, what they could do with it, would shape the pattern of hemisphere life...