Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plea of Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden for a relaxation of the Allied embargo against trade to Red China got a cool reception in Washington last week (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Part of the reason was an angry blast by the Senate Investigations Subcommittee at the "shocking" flow of strategic goods already leaking out to Red nations, mainly Russia. The subcommittee voted unanimously for public hearings on the effect of an agreement two years ago to cut the Battle Act embargo list for Western Allies from 297 to 217 items and the international quantitative control list from 90 to 20 items...
Senator Hubert Humphrey, a careful reader of magazines, was incensed again. Standing in the Senate chamber one afternoon last week, he brandished a copy of the December Harper's, then read excerpts from an article entitled "The Country Slickers Take Us Again." The article, a blast at farm subsidies, was enough to make any farm-belt Senator (such as Minnesota's Humphrey) writhe in anguish. Excerpts...
...target. Another method, probably the most important one, is to keep heat from penetrating more than the skin of the missile. A third possibility, exploding the warhead while many miles above the surface, is not acceptable to the ICBM-men. The great thermonuclear charge might still have a blast-and-heat effect on the ground far below, but it would not produce other effects-chiefly radioactive fallout...
Equations of War. The ICBM is the nearest thing to an "ultimate weapon," complete with delivery system, that has ever been conceived. From U.S.-controlled territory, it could reach any part of the world, wreck the biggest city by blast and heat. Then the radioactive byproducts, drifting with the wind, could turn an area the size of many nations into a silent wilderness. An enemy's version of ICBM could do the same to any part...
...great waltzes; gypsy fiddlers roamed Viennese bars, while in quiet cafes the only music (no less attractive in its own way) used to be the rustle of turning newspapers and the click of spoons scooping the whipped cream from the coffee cups. Now, everywhere, jukeboxes are going full blast. Vienna has 400, all bought during the past 14 months, the rest of the country has 300 more, and jukebox salesmen (one of whom is a count, of course) report that they cannot keep up with growing demand...