Word: terrorisms
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...general attitude about atomic control got no farther than the first primitive reflex of greed and terror; the unkeepable secret must be kept. The general attitude toward racial problems was most sadly expressed by the more thoughtful Southerners, who said they only wished they could spend the next few years where there weren't any Negroes. The general attitude toward Europe was in the first place insufficiently informed, in the second place wearily or even scornfully indifferent...
Bull-Necked Males. "The creature familiar as Superman is the leader of a swarm of satellites separated from him only by a copyright. Scores of comic books feature similar characters-for example, Catman, Bullet Man, The Human Torch, Captain Midnight, Captain Marvel, Black Terror, Blue Beetle, Green Lama, Yankee Boy, Bogey Man-which follow the Superman pattern of a 'hero' who overcomes all obstacles with machine-like precision. Often, victory comes from frankly preternatural powers . . . propulsion and X-ray vision: these heroes' bull necks are often a pretty fair index of their intellectual prowess...
Monsignor de Ferrari, a Salesian Father, died last August in Caracas. Last week news of his death reached the U.S., and with it as strange a tale as was ever told of jungles, of holy travels, and of unholy terror in the Venezuelan wilds...
Bathroom Scene. Ostensible excuse for PerÓn's new wave of terror was an abortive coup instigated in CÓrdoba by brave but bumbling ex-President General Arturo Rawson. But the resounding demonstration staged in the streets of Buenos Aires last fortnight by 500,000 irate Argentines, some of them bearing a placard of famed Patriot Rogue Saenz Pefia was the tip-off to PerÓn that he had better get tough...
...Jennings, onetime "redheaded terror of the Southwest," now 82-year-old proprietor of a one-acre chicken ranch, went to court in Los Angeles to sue for defamation of character ($100,000 worth). On the Lone Ranger radio program, he had not only been pictured as a common burglar and been suggested as responsible for turning a boy into a criminal, he complained, but "they had this Lone Ranger shootin' a gun out of my hand-and me an expert!" The onetime cattle-rustler, train-robber, killer (some dozen men by his own count), jailbird† (pardoned by President...