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...allies, pushed stubbornly ahead with his force de frappe, a nuclear deterrent that had neither present logic nor present value in Western defense planning save as the core of an independent European deterrent-and De Gaulle had yet to suggest that he would welcome other fingers on the trigger...
...step up their ordering of tools when they plan to boost output in the coming months. Toolmakers reported that orders were coming in from companies in every branch of business. "While the increase isn't startlingly high," says a top Administration economist, "purchases of machinery can be the trigger to a new advance in capital spending." If so, it would mean that the Kennedy Administration's grant of tax credits for plant modernization and speeded-up depreciation schedules finally may be paying some much-needed dividends for the economy...
...with unruly students. On Halloween, after a soldier had been hurt by a cherry bomb that exploded near his face, faculty members for the first time helped break up milling students, although their pleas did not increase respect for the troops. Shouted Student Housing Director Binford Nash: "They are trigger happy, and they will shoot. So for the sake of your mothers, go back to your rooms." University officials and M.P.s searched student rooms, turned up a startling array of weapons...
...over the country, if necessary, rather than risk annihilation of the human race. As founder of Britain's "better Red than dead" Campaign for 'Nuclear Disarmament and later of an even more militant group called the Committee of 100. Russell denounces the U.S. as a nation of trigger-happy imperialists, but had only soft words for Russia's recent rocket rattling. Despite, or because of, the fact that two of his four wives have been Americans. Russell has conducted a long love-hate affair with the U.S.; he is still bitter about his court-ordered dismissal from...
Stashinsky pulled through. While passing Rebet on the staircase of an office building, he pointed the six-inch aluminum barrel at Rebet's face and pulled the trigger. Rebet toppled without a sound, and Stashinsky did not look back as he walked to a canal and dropped the weapon into the water. Two years later, he killed another exiled Ukrainian leader, Stefan Bandera, almost as smoothly. But while watching a newsreel of Bandera's funeral in a movie theater, Stashinsky felt his conscience catching up with him. "It hit me like a hammer," he said. "From then...