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...Russia's Nikita Khrushchev, in a letter to President Eisenhower, issued a virtual ultimatum that the U.S. must withdraw its forces from Formosa Strait, abandon not only Quemoy and Matsu but Formosa as well-or be faced by the combined might of Russia and Red China...
...test's purpose was to find what happens when a nuclear warhead explodes in a virtual vacuum above the bulk of the atmosphere. The behavior of a nuclear explosion near sea level is known precisely. The nuclear fireball expands very fast at first, but both its temperature and pressure fall as it gets bigger. When its pressure equals that of the air, the ball stops expanding (for a megaton explosion, at a diameter of about one mile). The air also absorbs gamma and ultraviolet rays, confines radioactive particles to a comparatively small cloud...
Heavy Footfall. Ike's belated blast came as a virtual order to amend, and last week, as the House armed itself for debate, House Republican Leader Martin dutifully carried out the orders with the reluctant help of Illinois' Les Arends. ranking Republican member of Vinson's committee. Joe Martin took one more step: he called a G.O.P. caucus and laid out the party line, reported afterward that 95% of the Republicans would go along with the amendments...
...year would have given the quintet a tie for third in the Ivy League, but Johnny Lee and Larry Downs scored 78 points between them to sink the varsity, 105-87. The quintet, nevertheless proved itself to be one of the college's most exciting teams and played to virtual sellouts in the IAB while a few year ago, the only spectators had been friends of the family and a few janitors...
...other Crimson entrants, captain Al Gordon did possibly the best, although he did not get past the trials in the 440. He finished in a virtual tie for second, and sideline observers felt that he had finished second, or at least no worse than third. However, the judges saw it differently, giving him fourth and eliminating him from further competition. The second place time was :48.3, only .3 seconds off the Harvard record...