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Speaking in Buffalo, Dr. Ralph E. Lapp, director of the Nuclear Science Service, blasted the deterrent theory as a doctrine of "peace through mutual terror." Instead of assuring peace, said Lapp, possession of retaliatory atomic-thermonuclear weapons by both sides will create an "utterly unstable" situation in which one side or the other might attempt to strike a devastating first blow. Therefore, the nation needs both "sword and shield." An effective defense system against atomic-thermonuclear attack is possible, Lapp insisted, "if we really give our scientists their heads." But would the U.S. public be willing...
...idea, apparently, was to send yet another dog after the scraps from Annie Get Your Gun's box-office banquet. Instead of Annie Oakley and Buffalo Bill, the lovers in this opus are Calamity Jane and Wild Bill Hickok, together with such a subsidiary tangle of interlocking triangles that the audience may need a logarithm table to figure...
Mostly they lived by their rifles, and in buffalo country the living was easy. But there were times when roots, dried berries and their horses and dogs stood between them and starvation. Wrote Lewis on Jan. 5, 1806: "I have learned to think that if the chord be sufficiently strong, which binds the soul and boddy together, it dose not so much matter about the materials which compose...
...Chicago, the Admiral Corp., discovering that scores of Great Lakes freighters are now equipped with TV sets, reported that ships can steam 986 miles from Buffalo to Duluth, Minn, with "relatively few non-TV reception areas." Uplift note reported by Admiral: Great Lakes sailors are so entranced by TV that they no longer "have to go ashore to seek entertainment...
...resist his sombrero, chaps, and jangling spurs-or his tall tales. Dante Gabriel Rossetti watched wide-eyed when Joaquin put two cigars in his mouth, lit them up, and bellowed, "That's the way we do it in the States!" Others stood spellbound as he told of lassoing buffalo as they stampeded down Beacon Street in Boston...