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...result of this new Air Force precision? In the event of Russian attack, U.S. strategic bombers can deliver an attack which would destroy major Soviet air bases and war installations within two hours after the first U.S. bomber crosses Russia's outer defenses. That single attack, with the present-day atomic bomb, would pack more explosive force than all other explosives fired in all wars to date. In the near future, armed with the thermonuclear bomb, one bomber will carry more destructive power than the sum total of all explosives in history...
...must fly at something like Mach 10 (more than 7,000 m.p.h.) to get enough lift out of the thin air. When the pilot bails out, however, the thinness of the air comes to his rescue: he does not feel so much shock as he would when leaving a present-day airplane at comparatively low altitude...
...presses last week was the commission's final report, a preliminary draft of which has already been circulated among Holy Trinity's parishioners and sent to clergymen throughout the country. After examining "present-day funeral practice," the commission came to the conclusion "that the historic depths of Christian meaning are increasingly lost to the American, even the regular churchgoer, and that without the interpretation and dramatic support of the simple rites of the church, to receive whatever solace and comfort is available in the despair of death, more and more people look to the funeral director as pastor...
...publicity," says Grandma, "that I'm too old to care for now." The present-day realities of life amidst her family are still what matter most to her. Some 30-odd descendants and in-laws live nearby, and her eldest daughter, Winona, shares Grandma's house. The low, efficient, L-shaped structure-with picture windows, false shutters, garage and freezer-was put up for her by Grandma's son Forrest and two grandsons. They took the plan from a magazine illustration and finished building it two years...
...unnoticed except for a few of us who were closely associated with him in what he called his "great adventure" and who stopped long enough to drink a silent toast to his memory. One has merely to look about Harvard, however, to see how much the College and the present-day undergraduate are beneficiaries in 1953 of Mr. Lowell's vision, leadership and guidance...