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...leader in the race for the presidential nomination was a man who kept insisting that he was not a candidate. All week long, the pressure on Illinois' Governor Adlai Stevenson steadily increased. On Sunday, when the governor attended Chicago's fashionable Fourth Presbyterian Church, he was the target of a sermon against indecision by the Rev. Dr. Harrison Ray Anderson. Dr. Anderson's theme was "How Men Know God's Will"; his conclusion: "One must...
...Command) touched down at a bomber base in central Japan after a leisurely multistop flight over the Pacific in which inflight refueling was successfully used. The F-84 Gs replaced a garrison wing of Thunderjets which went to Korea to fight. From Japan the new planes can reach any target in southern Manchuria, and they are equipped with bomb racks for carrying "tactical" (small) atomic bombs. Official Washington pooh-poohed any notion that the U.S. would use atomic weapons either in Manchuria or in North Korea-but the Communists knew that Washington might change its mind...
...radio shrilled that the Pyongyang raids were "directed at Paris, London, New York and Moscow-at a new world war." Red China's Foreign Minister Chou En-lai charged that U.N. planes had crossed the Yalu and attacked the great Manchurian air base at Antung (a possible real target in the future...
...with indignation. Object of their wrath: the American Legion, a longtime ally of the N.E.A. on a joint educational committee, but a frequent critic of progressive education in U.S. schools. In the June issue of its monthly magazine the Legion had printed an article entitled "Your Child Is Their Target," which branded the N.E.A. leadership as "one of the strongest forces today in propagandizing for a socialistic America...
Experts believe that these semi-automatic interceptors are an interim type. The final step will take the Air Force to completely automatic models. They will take off by themselves and follow radio guidance to the target area. Their own radars will pick up the target, fire the rockets or air-to-air homing missiles. Then they will return to base, steered and landed by human coaches on the ground...