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...role, picking up issues from the CRIMSON and presenting short, generally worthless statements, weeks after a CRIMSON news story or editorial. In any competition on minor matters the Council is doomed to lose, both because its deliberations, often necessarily picayune, are public, and because the CRIMSON automatically commands a wider audience...
...satire is obviously heavy handed, perhaps too much so in spots; the naming of characters is unnecessarily absurd. However, the broad farce opens Kubrick's social criticism to a wider audience than artistic subtlety could have...
...called Buster Jangle-U. (1951), used a crude atom bomb with a yield of 1.2 kilotons. It dug a circular hole 53 ft. deep and 258 ft. in diameter. The next shot, Teapot-Ess, had the same yield, but it was placed deeper and it dug a deeper and wider crater. With these and other shots, Ploughshare scientists built up a body of theory and experience in which they have great confidence. Latest and largest cratering shots, Sedan (100 kilotons) and Danny Boy (400 kilotons), were fired in 1962 and proved that the Ploughshare rules for nuclear explosives work just...
...doors are open wider now. With the expansion of the U.S. economy and the U.S. Government, the demand for bright young lawyers has grown faster than the supply. The big firms' lists of acceptable law schools are swelled from two or three to ten or more; students near the top of the class rarely have to hunt down jobs-they are recruited even before graduation...
Even a Yacht. Some of Defferre's fellow Socialists began to squirm as well. Uneasiest of all was Party Secretary Guy Mollet, who has long been jealous of Defferre's growing power in the party and his even wider appeal to the nation. When the governing board of the Socialist Party met last week at its Paris headquarters just off Place Pigalle, Mollet fought hard to stop the Socialists from naming anyone as a presidential candidate-at least at this moment. But of the 43 Socialists present at last week's meeting, fully 35 backed Defferre...