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From Berlin to Bari, from Malaga to Manchester, the news of the Russian bomb (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) struck with vastly varying impact. In some places, it cut deep along taut nerves; in others, it slid smoothly off the backs of nations long numbed by constant danger. Nowhere did it provoke the apocalyptic shudders which had attended the world's first atomic explosions; in the Atomic Year V, men still dreaded the unchained atom, but they had gotten used to the idea that they must live with it. The question was, how? How would the Other Bomb affect the great...
...Communists there was smug mirth. Their press mocked America's "atomaniacs." In Italy, pro-Soviet Socialist Leader Pietro Nenni (just back from a 15-day junket to another "peace" congress in Moscow) proudly pinpointed the site of the explosion in "eastern Siberia." In the town of Santeramo near Bari, Communists got the news in the middle of the night, raced in nightshirts and dressing gowns to a hasty rally where a speaker promised: "We Communists will have our headquarters at the White House! Washington shall be ours...
Smoke Signal. Near Bari, Italy, Farmhand Donato Summa explained why he had flagged down the crack Rome-Bari train to speak to the engineer: he had been working in the fields for three hours without a smoke and needed a match...
...receipts to citizens who paid up, got back 28 receipts with checks to cover the same amounts. In Dallas, Internal Revenue officials received an unsigned letter enclosing $105 and a Bible reference: "Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due . . ." (Romans 13:7) In Bari, Italy, Widow Teresa Porcaro looked at her tax bill, forthwith died of a heart attack...
...Bari, a struggling blacksmith, Angelo Pantoso, fretted: "I believe in God. God protected me at war, but when I came back home, only the Communist Party explained the cause of my poverty. Now there is a storm in my mind...