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UNESCO, almost walleyed from trying to see everything globally, last week focused its eyes down on 20 square miles of the earth's surface. As its first target in teaching the world's untaught, it had picked southern Haiti...
Welles.put up more resistance. He first ignored, then rudely rebuffed the young man. After a month of persistent trying, however, Markle finally broke down the Welles defenses, persuaded his target to listen to a recorded parody of Welles in action. Impressed, Orson let the youngster repeat the parody on his Mercury Sum mer Theater program and invited Markle to Hollywood to do a screen version of Oscar Wilde's Salome. The production fell through, but Markle is disgusted with movies, anyway, and with "that terrible place" (Hollywood). If movies could be made in "civilized" New York, he thinks...
...blue-grass country of Kentucky. As a matter of fact, there had not been much talk about the wonders of homebred hay-burners since an upstart Texan named Assault romped off with the 1946 Derby. Now a fresh crop of upstarts was taking dead aim on the 1947 Derby target...
...must grind up human flesh and bone in the industrial machine . . . then before God I assert that those who consume coal owe them and their families protection. ... I care not who in heaven or hell oppose it. . . ." Roaring, whispering or hammering the table, he always swiveled back to his target-Krug...
Sterility. Atomic radiation has a known effect on reproductive organs. How damaging was The Bomb? Months after it fell, Japanese doctors examined the sperm of 124 Hiroshima men, found one-third of them sterile. The explosion had produced sterility up to three miles from the target center. Two-thirds of the women exposed to The Bomb's atomic radiation suffered interference with menstruation; some who were pregnant had miscarriages...