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...Snake River. Before the Senate was a Democrat-sponsored bill to 1) order the private development halted (Idaho Power has already begun work at Brownlee, plans to spend $175 million), and 2) build a single, multipurpose, $308 million federal dam in Hell's Canyon. Main reason for the all-out Democratic effort: egged on by National Chairman Paul Butler, the Senate Democrats hoped to pass the bill, draw an Eisenhower veto that would, in the power-conscious Northwest, help the campaigns of Oregon's Senator Wayne Morse and Washington's Senator Warren Magnuson...
...into "Fortress America" and abandon its allies overseas. Only last month, in a similar desperate gamble to preserve the Army's status quo, Lieut. General James M. Gavin, the Army's razor-sharp director of research and development, told a Senate investigating committee that the fallout from an all-out atomic attack on Russia might kill hundreds of millions of people in friendly nations should certain unfriendly winds prevail. His motive: to attack the deterrent principle...
...avoid these abdications in St. Louis, Cowdry sparked an all-out drive to keep the aged socially active. With a mayor's committee and other groups in support, there are recreation centers, hobby shows, "golden-age clubs," summer camps, and light industries which rely on the willingness of the aged to do painstaking, detailed work...
...Argentine uprising (TIME, June 18) was planned as no mere harassment of the government, but an all-out revolution. As President Pedro Aramburu reconstructed it, the plot's recruits came from groups that supported ex-Strongman Juan Perón: labor leaders, diehard Peronista bullyboys, cashiered officials. Communists helped, and Perón sent funds. The uprising failed mainly because the government uncovered enough of it a fortnight ago to panic some hotheads into striking six days early. As a result, the twelve-hour revolt had only a fraction of its plotted impact; e.g., the planned wave of strikes...
MOST experts agree that all-out atomic war might end civilization. But what about the long-range effects of atomic-age peace? Last year the National Academy of Sciences, financed by the Rockefeller Foundation, undertook to find out. Last week its committees of eminent scientists made their report on what increasing radioactivity can do to humanity. General conclusions: 1) something new, strange and dangerous has come into the world; 2) not enough is known about it; 3) careful precautions should be taken to ward off future disaster...