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Though the Government's official shelter booklet uses 5-megaton bombs as the basis for its calculations, bigger warheads, with greater destructive power over a wider radius, must certainly be reckoned with. A 50-megaton blast could ignite frame houses up to 60 miles from Ground Zero, burning or asphyxiating many people in basement fallout shelters-or tumbling their houses down on them. Scientists also think a nuclear blast might produce a fierce fire storm, which would suck up oxygen over large areas and kill all in its path-but no one can be certain...
...join military alliances. Of his predecessors. New York Businessman Ellsworth Bunker and Kentucky's U.S. Senator John Sherman Cooper were exceptionally able and well liked, while Chester Bowles, though popular at the time, is now remembered as having tried too hard to woo the Indians. Galbraith has a wider field of effectiveness and is closer to Nehru than either of his immediate predecessors, for the simple reason, as New Delhi sees it, that "they have more to talk about...
...past, she pointed out, there has been a problem of communication between the Administration and the students. Under her proposal, representatives of the Administration would be able to express their attitudes and offer information to a wider segment of the undergraduates than is now possible...
REBECCA: You were to go as a messenger of emancipation from home to home; to win over minds and wills; to create noble men around you in wider and wider circles. Noble...
...British Foreign Office and the U.S. Department of State. Its headquarters staff of 100 (a third of them non-Jews), 40 British correspondents and 60 overseas stringers not only faithfully record the history, thought, hopes and fears of the world Jewish community, but spread their influence far wider than the Chronicle's circulation by providing Jewish news to more than 30 Jewish newspapers overseas...