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...most technically advanced nation still lacks mass television. In white-ruled South Africa, the government refuses to permit TV on the ground that it would corrupt both the white minority and nonwhite majority.* Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd has more or less put TV in a category with atom bombs and poison gas. "They are modern things, but that does not mean they are desirable. The government has to watch for any dangers to the people, both spiritual and physical." Minister of Posts and Telegraphs Albert Hertzog has put the government view just as bluntly: "The effect of the wrong picture...
...which she worked. But whatever the circumstances, she maintained an elegance of appearance and achievement. No distraction was enough to spoil the work that led to a thorough knowledge of the penicillin molecule, and to the discovery of the structure of Vitamin B12, the recalcitrant molecule with a cobalt atom heart that is essential to human life...
...like it when a TV spot spills out the horrible truth in vicious terms. So what! It's a vicious, scary subject. How can any intelligent, thinking American say that Goldwater will use these weapons with discretion? There is no such thing as a small atom bomb...
...fact that Goldwater is suffering political damage from his talk about "sharing," the possibility of doing just that has been discussed by NATO-nation leaders for years. The so-called Multilateral Force, first formally promulgated by President Kennedy, is one effort to solve the problem. Under the MLF plan, atom-armed surface ships and submarines would be manned by mixed crews from all the NATO nations, and any one of those nations would have a veto power over a decision to fire a nuclear weapon...
...International Bureau of Weights and Measures will discuss at its meeting in Paris next month the adoption of a new official standard for measuring a second. If a new standard is adopted, a second will be as long as 9,192,631,770 cycles of vibration of a cesium atom. No more, no less. Well, perhaps...