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...nervous impulse that "inhibits the slow nerve fiber and puts it out of action." All further impulses go on the fast-action fiber. How far the grasshopper leaps depends on the number of impulses it sends its leg muscles: one impulse produces a hop; two a "moderate jump"; three an all-out effort. Somehow the grasshopper gets all this done in one-thirtieth of a second. Marvels Grasshopperman Hoyle: "A superb example of natural economy...
This week President Eisenhower was back at home, where the U.S. needed the Ike it remembered. The NATO conference itself had imposed new burdens and responsibilities on the U.S., and they ranged from convincing Congress of the Tightness of the new commitments to the all-out production of missiles that are not yet operational. The Soviet peace-propaganda offensive, much in the minds of all NATO statesmen and their constituents, demanded renewed efforts of U.S. diplomacy. The first limited test-firing of the Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile was an important step toward regaining free-world confidence in U.S. technical strength...
...Suez affair how sorely our allies may be tempted to take impulsive, independent action. Our eagerness to bolster the pride and might of our allies should not cause us to forget that the first atomic-armed missile fired by any NATO finger will shoot the U.S. into an all-out nuclear...
...week's end cautious Generalissimo Franco overruled army demands for an all-out counterattack in Africa, and his Rabat embassy announced that Spain was ready for "friendly talks" about Ifni's future. To make his friendly gesture more emphatic, he dispatched two cruisers and four destroyers to hover off the Moroccan city of Agadir, just north of Ifni...
...combined with the ability to intercept and detonate an enemy's guided missiles before they can damage the U.S. proper. But beyond that was a vital area where serious exploration has made little if any inroad in public consciousness. Prime question: What can shelters do to protect people in all-out thermonuclear...