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...rocket, perhaps, or, more likely, suspended from a captive balloon. However it was hoisted, the bomb's height was carefully chosen to minimize local fallout. If the fireball did not touch the ground before it stopped expanding, little or none of its radioactive material would mix with pulverized soil blown out of its massive crater...
...gold gowns, jeweled headdresses, a pinpricked panoply of tiny candles-is matched with the mystery of ancient ritual. The Broadwayward book relies heavily on soap operatics for the matrons' matinee trade, but much of the time Milk and Honey flows exuberantly and lyrically out of its native soil...
Within an hour, the battle subsided. The Viet Cong disappeared into the bushes or the earth, for they often lie hidden during the day in camouflaged holes tunneled into the sandy soil. A dead Civil Guard was carried back to camp. The men of his unit shook their heads despondently; one of them began to weep. "Happens every night," said U.S. Sergeant Antonio Duarte. "Sometimes we have two or three skirmishes going on at the same time...
...after months of talk, the conferees finally hammered out agreement on 17 clauses, got down to the bedrock details of inspection and control, e.g., how many foreign inspection teams could be stationed on Russian soil, how freely could they move in their investigations? The West demanded 20 inspections a year to check on suspicious earth movements, but Russia insisted three were enough. "You cannot sneak spies into our bedroom,'' cried Nikita Khrushchev. In one compromise after another, the U.S. agreed to 17, then twelve, in hope of reaching agreement. The U.S. even consented to let Soviet scientists examine...
Asks Rabbi Weiner: "Is it possible for the Christian faith to be dipped profoundly in the life and reality of modern Israel without undergoing some profound changes?" And he wonders if there might not be ''a kind of Christianity, a religious seed . . . acceptable to this soil...