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...apparent vigor surprised the wildly cheering crowds and the Communists. Said Defense Minister Cipriano Facchinetti: "Rehabilitation of our armed forces has been achieved silently but efficiently in the past few months." Interior Minister Mario Scelba announced that the government had 330,000 men under arms, including a special shock force of 150,000 ready to take on the Communists if they tried to make trouble on election day. When the parade reached the end of the Via dell Impero, it suddenly swung left and marched through the Via delle Botteghe Oscure, where Communist headquarters are located. From their windows...
...world crisis continued; but the first shock of U.S. realization had subsided. The U.S., remembering the danger signals before World War II, mulled over the deadly parallel. By last week, some cocktail-party pundits were beginning to mutter: "Why not drop the bomb on Russia...
...doctors who developed topectomy warn that not all insane patients can benefit from it. The delicate operation, which takes four to six hours, should not be tried until all other forms of treatment (shock, psychotherapy, etc.) have failed...
...early "Model T" bombs were designed to give maximum shock effect. Up-to-date bombs, intended to make the most of the radioactive effect, may be angled differently. Their explosive plutonium hearts may be surrounded by material chosen for its ability to absorb radiation and neutrons. When the bomb goes off they would turn into extra-deadly isotopes. Such a bomb would be a double threat. It could devastate a comparatively small area by shock and heat. Then the isotope fog could drift slowly downwind, killing by radiation...
...Shock, No Surprise. The congressional reaction was privately violent. Bob Taft was critical because the President had not mentioned a bigger air force. Illinois Republican Leo Allen, who has kept U.M.T. bottled up in his House Rules Committee, said coldly that there was "no more prospect" for a vote now than there had been before. The President was damned on all sides. In a normal world, his program would have sunk without a trace...