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...answer is rather loudly demanded by TIME'S [March 30] story, "Maginot Line of the Air," about our recent series on Project Lincoln and the air-defense problem. TIME asserted that our "implication that Lincoln was the Government's prime concern collapsed like a pricked balloon," when subjected to careful checking . . . We wrote [that] the Lincoln findings are being "seriously considered" by the President and "actively discussed" by the National Security Council . . . Let us look at the facts...
...exhibition, De Kooning celebrates woman in huge canvases covered with fierce slashes, stabs, splashes and streams of lush color. His women look as ripe as Tiepolo's baroque matrons, but they are fully clothed and mighty ugly, with ox eyes, balloon bosoms, pointy teeth and vaguely voracious little smiles. He pictures them in no particular setting, but somehow they convey the impression of being terribly tough, big-city, mid-20th-century dames...
When Cartoonist Robert Osborn left the Navy in 1946, he paid his respects to the military with a small book of cartoons entitled War Is No Damn Good! Across its pages strutted a wonderful, viciously funny parade of balloon-shaped generals and admirals, gorilla-faced noncoms and forlorn, tortured G.I.s. Last week Osborn finally paid his respects to civilian life with a book called Low & Inside (Farrar, Straus & Young; $3.75). If anything, the sequel is even deadlier and more acidly humorous than the original...
When other reporters began to check the Alsops' story, however, the implication that Project Lincoln was the Government's prime concern collapsed like a pricked balloon. At a presidential press conference, Dwight Eisenhower quietly remarked that he had never studied the report in detail. Other Administration spokesmen made it clear that Project Lincoln is only one of several air-defense studies, none of which is now under active consideration...
...physical touch of food entering the stomach set off a chain of automatic reactions. The stomach "grabbed" the food with firm muscles and "milked" it on its way down the intestinal tract. And the stomach did these same things when the doctors inserted a small balloon on a string...