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Part of the problem stems from being in between two worlds. With a history of civilized government as long as our own and with an exposure to the apparatus that developed nations have--automobiles, refrigerators--and yet with chronic over-populations, a lack of marketable natural resources, and a demoralizing lack of opportunity for western-quality education, a natural frustration and discontent is generated. This was best expressed by a native who said bitterly to me, "I'd rather be a lamp-post in New York than the governor of this whole damned island." This sort of ambition...
Undoubtedly, the spur to action can be valuable. It can prod us out of scientific complacency and give rise to a more adequate defense apparatus. But there is a greater significance to the challenge. The nation, as some already realize, must reappraise its sources of strength, must base its confidence on firm, not illusory ground, and must reconstruct its policies and tactics on this new foundation. America is still technologically the leader; her people live more luxuriously than any people in history. And the promise for the future is not eclipsed by Russia's satellites in space...
...Thyroids. Inspectors armed with Geiger counters and chemical test apparatus swarmed over the dairy farms, testing grass, cows, milk and eggs. At first everything looked all right, but after a few days, inspectors reported samples of fresh milk spiked with radioactive iodine 131. The cows of Geiger Gulch were eating contaminated grass, and the concentration of iodine 131 in their milk and thyroid glands was building up. No sample was found to be really dangerous, but as a precaution, all milk from 150 farms was ordered dumped. Later the embargo was extended to 1,000 more farms...
Battle Stations. At Yankee Stadium a mile and a half of cable linked the cameras with NBC's color mobile unit in the street outside. Within the curbstone control room, nine shirtsleeved men were wedged into a maze of apparatus like submariners at battle stations, lit by little more than the flicker of eight TV monitoring screens. Director Harry Coyle, 35, an ex-bomber pilot who, like most of the others in the mobile unit, is a veteran of TV's infancy, chain-smoked from his perch on a high stool, his eyes darting back and forth. Crammed...
...hand in writing the script, is a master of nuances with the camera and in picking English types with an air of reality-harried bureaucrats, laboratory assistants who help themselves to a wee drop from a retort now and then, and other pungent touches. Particularly amusing is the chemical apparatus that serves as a running gag throughout the film. Also sprightly is Benjamin Frenkel's music...