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...consider ourselves free to resume nuclear-weapons testing, we shall not resume it without announcing our intention in advance. During this period . . . the U.S. will continue in its active program of weapons-research development and laboratory-type experimentation." Peril on Path? Thus last week the President resolved the tricky problem of what to do when the test moratorium ran out with the old year. But he postponed into 1960 his decision on what the basic trend of U.S. nuclear policy ought to be -and on this broader decision his advisers were still divided. On the one hand, the Pentagon...
...strengthening the Republican Party. Said Rocky in his withdrawal statement: "I am a Republican-seriously concerned about the future vigor and purpose of my party ... In this spirit I expect to support the nominees, as well as the pro gram, of the party in 1960." One para mount party problem in the 1960 cam paign will be to convince independents that Nixon is a modern Republican and not the pawn of the Old Guard right wing, as the Democrats gleefully charge (although Californian Nixon was, in fact, a modern Republican before Eisenhower was a candidate or before Rockefeller...
...season of Sputnik and missile triumphs, the Soviet Union has about five times as many people working on the land as the U.S. does, and producing less. Presiding at a year-end Communist Central Committee meeting on the Soviet farm problem, Premier Nikita Khrushchev acknowledged that the 1959 grain harvest had been disappointing, allowed himself to be angry and sarcastic about...
...congratulations on the birth of her ninth child-a girl whom the Sammours decided to name Sariah, which in Arabic means rich. On his Brazilian ranch, lean, energetic Berlino de Andrade, 67, confided to friends that he had decided to have no more children, but was unworried by the problem of supporting the 36 he had already sired. Said Berlino: "If I can't do anything better for them, I can always raise them as God raises potatoes...
...world's pessimists, there should be food for thought in the fact that in the four years since Dr. Boulding wrote, even the sky has ceased to be the limit for man. But on earth, the continuing problem of population will demand the skill of science, the wisdom of government, the good will of all men. Population, as much as anything else, will determine the direction history takes...