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...warning: the 100-sun glare of the fire ball. Then, says AEC, don't look-duck. If you are in the open, drop to the ground and curl up so as to cover your arms and hands, face and neck as much as possible. Even paper or cloth will cut down flash burns; stepping into a shadow may reduce heat radiation below the danger point...
...Most of the radioactive contamination from an air burst will be in the central area; few can escape. But heavy rain, strong wind, or an underwater burst may spread radioactive matter to areas with many survivors. They should get out of their clothes as soon as possible and wash themselves with soap, or better, the "soapless" detergents now in most U.S. kitchens.* Lacking water or soap, vigorous rubbing of the skin with uncontaminated paper or cloth will help...
Instead of taking up the agenda item, he read a "most urgent" telegram from the North Korean authorities, a denunciation, conveniently in Russian, of "American interventionists . . . barbarous attacks . . . cannibalistic cynicism . . ." It was cut from the same cloth of distortion and falsehood that the Russian delegate had unrolled in all his previous harangues (e.g., the real aggressors in Korea were "American imperialists"; only the Soviet Union desired a "peaceful settlement...
...ordinary priest. He had a mortar hidden in his house and on occasion he carried a Tommy gun. At other times he lied, poached, attempted bribery and fought with his fists. Once, when he attacked the subject of sexual immorality, he draped the crucifix in his church with a cloth so that Christ might not be obliged to listen to his blunt language...
...knew nothing about surgery, but she studied old medical textbooks and, assisted by grit and prayer, tackled whatever came her way with uncommon success. She bought a wonderfully intelligent old Negro woman from her husband (for a few empty tin cans, a little salt and a length of cloth) and trained her to become a first-class nurse. With makeshift instruments and chronically insufficient supplies, together they tended the sick over an enormous area of jungle. Ellen was horrified when Aganza's primitive cure for a psychiatric case turned out to be a kick in the backside...