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Washington had come to the conclusion that the public is far too jittery about the atom bomb. Said Colonel James P. Cooney of the Army Medical Corps : "If a bomb were dropped on one of our cities tomorrow, mass hysteria would probably cause the unnecessary loss of many lives." In soothing vein, the Surgeon General's office this week issued a statement with a cheery title: "Army Doctors Say Hysteria Need Not Follow Atom-Bomb Explosion." Some of its reassuring points...
Drumbeating for Friday's "Save the Peace" rally hit a slightly ominous note yesterday noon, when six College men and as many Radcliffe representatives turned the Memorial Chapel lawn into a graveyard commemorating atom war casualties, only to draw a warning from Associate Dean Watson that further authorized use of University property might lead to severance of connection for those involved. The Yard is "definitely out" for Friday's mass meeting, he added...
...atom bomb," confided George Bernard Shaw, "is out of the question, just as gas was in the last war. It is too destructive to both sides...
...moon or one of the planets; 4) the re-emergence of Atlantis; 5) the first real proof of a life after death; 6) discovery and photographing of a live prehistoric monster; 7) discovery of an eyewitness to a major event in history, such as the Crucifixion; 8) the first atom bombing of New York City; 9) the second coming of Christ...
While the Administration was preparing to use the Taft-Hartley Act in the coal strike (see above), Taft-Hartley machinery was already at work on two other strike fronts: at the Oak Ridge atom plant, where a labor dispute threatened the heart of U.S. war strength; in the meat-packing industry, where a walkout of packinghouse workers had halved the nation's meat supply...