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After a few days delay to conceal the workings of their detection systems, U.S. authorities began last week to release a few details about the 30-megaton nuclear test in the Soviet Arctic. A 30-megaton explosion is not easy to hide. The island of Novaya Zemlya adjoins the international waters of the Barents Sea, and U.S. airplanes were presumably cruising near the Soviet test range. U.S. submarines were probably watching through periscopes, just as Russian submarines keep track of U.S. rocket shots from Cape Canaveral. Besides such eye and camera witnesses, the U.S. had a varied array of instruments...
...finale. Dawn of Mankind. The symphony avoids the dark colors and heavy textures of traditional Russian orchestral music; it recalls far better works in its sharply staccato rhythms and in the superb ingenuity of some of its string sequences. But not even as fine a technician as Shostakovich could conceal the general banality...
Uninvited guests are often pests-especially when they drop by with the announced purpose of telling the host how to run the household. Thus President Kennedy last week made little effort to conceal his private irritation at a visit to Washington from Indonesia's showboating President Sukarno and Mali's towering (6 ft. 8 in.) President Modibo Keita, who had come, as representatives of neutralist nations, to urge the U.S. against taking any stands that might lead...
...being frank: "I do not remember who it was who said that a diplomat is given a tongue in order to conceal his thoughts. He who does that is no diplomat but a cheap politician. His policy is bound to end in failure. I do not belong to that sort...
...soon as the Russians started their new series of nuclear tests in the atmosphere, it was clear that they could not have cared less how quickly the rest of the world learned about their latest tactic. Atmospheric tests are impossible to conceal; they shout their presence in varied voices, some of which carry for thousands of miles and can be detected in many ways...