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...thought it would be fun to be in front of the camera instead of behind for a change-especially since I've said such bad things about actors," chuckled Author Truman Capote, trying to explain why he had signed up for his first movie role ever. Capote, the scriptwriter for Beat the Devil and The Innocents, will portray an eccentric, killer-minded billionaire in a Neil Simon comedy titled Murder by Death. "The movie will have more special effects than Rosemary's Baby and The Exorcist combined," claimed Truman, whose co-stars will include Peter Folk, Alec Guinness...
President Truman used to say that he had never lost a moment's sleep over his decision to drop that first atomic bomb, but in the course of three decades Americans have become less certain about who their enemies are and what right the U.S. had to visit a holocaust upon the citizens of Hiroshima. At least half a dozen nations now possess the secret of nuclear destruction, and some 7,000 missiles many times as powerful as the Hiroshima bomb stand ready to ravage civilization. The fact that they have not yet done so can be ascribed...
...hard to know what to make of the atomic bomb now. At the time was shocking for its power--more than 2000 tons of TNT, President truman told the world--but in retrospect, more people were killed in other bombings. It must have seemed then that every war would be conducted with atomic force, so that avoiding war was a necessity in the future--but there have been other wars, they have not used the bomb, and the world has survived. Perhaps it also seemed exciting that Americans had learned to harness the universe's elemental forces, something that...
Died. Morgan Beatty, 72, reporter and NBC radio broadcaster; in St. Johns, Antigua. As a military expert for the Associated Press during World War II, Beatty accurately predicted both Hitler's assault on Russia and the successful Soviet resistance. Later, he reported Roosevelt's choice of Harry Truman as his 1944 running mate before even Tru- man knew about it. But his biggest scoop was never broadcast: sailing home from the 1945 Potsdam Conference on a naval vessel with Truman, Beatty guessed that an atomic bomb was to be dropped on Hiroshima when Truman interrupted a poker game...
...more philosophical moments, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has pondered his new boss in the international setting. He fits him into the company-if not yet, of course, the stature-of Harry Truman and Pope John, men elevated to power because they were perceived to be plain, calm and safe...