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...moment of victory was almost anticlimactic. There was no battering-ram cloture vote to beat Southern filibusters into silence (although the Southern minority of 18 included the chairmen of nine powerful Senate committees). The Senate galleries were virtually empty; not a cheer rang through the chamber. But, in a sense, the lack of dramatics was a tribute to superb legislative technique. Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and Republican Leader Everett Dirksen had allowed plenty of time for Northern liberals and Southern diehards to talk themselves out of election-year invective, then smoothly pushed through the House-approved (TIME, April...
...first time, Afrikaner and English-speaking business groups spoke out. Their objection was simple: the disturbances were jeopardizing the economy. Jan Moolman, chairman of the Wool Board, called on the government to "amend their policies -or else." Peter Mosenthal, a textile manufacturer who is president of the Port Elizabeth Chamber of Commerce, declared: "The time has arrived when organized commerce must speak. The Bantu certainly have legitimate grievances...
...could be carried out with slight risk of detection. And by going to a lot of expense, the U.S.S.R. could carry out tests much bigger than 19 kilotons without much risk. Under the "big-hole" theory worked out by U.S. scientists, an explosion in a very large, spherical underground chamber would be muffled by a factor of as much as 300 to 1, so that a 100-kiloton explosion would set up no stronger a tremor than an unmuffled one-third kiloton explosion, and would thus go entirely undetected. Excavating a big-enough hole half-a-mile underground would...
...ahead, on the theory that no imaginable benefit the U.S.S.R. could gain from a nuclear test would be great enough to justify either a substantial risk of detection (which some think would entail a massive propaganda defeat for the U.S.S.R.) or the great expense of excavating a huge underground chamber (which would involve some risk because it would be difficult to hide the excavation work). More important, the Administration believes that the U.S.S.R. genuinely wants a test ban, partly because Soviet leaders are worried about a problem that also worries U.S. leaders: additional nations, notably Red China, may acquire nuclear...
...magnolia design." ^ In 1900 the Syphonic Closet of the Century was announced. It was clean and decent, but it missed the pungent grandeur of the commode from which Louis XIV announced his forthcoming marriage to Mme. de Maintenon. And it cannot have given its users the satisfaction of the chamber pot, or jerry, available to Britons around 1800, whose interior was limned with a portrait of Napoleon...