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...Ulam's results contradicted the theories of the physicists. They had taken hope when the machines' early returns seemed to confirm the physicists. But when ENIAC's answers were complete, Ulam was vindicated, and the physicists had to start theorizing all over again...
Zhukov had also said that Ike had twice invited him to visit the U.S.. and that he still dreams of doing so. Did Ike's recollection confirm that Zhukov memory? It surely did, said the President. "Now, when I asked him to visit our country, I was acting as the agent of my Government, which directed me to do so, and more than that, arrangements had been made once. My plane had been put at his disposal, and my son was detailed as his aide. And I remember he made the remark, 'Well, I shall certainly...
...these islands, Congress has given its blessing to a varsity of possible action. But in the light of precedent, it would seem that Congress has delegated powers it never had. As Commander-in-Chief, the President does not need Congress' permission to defend Formosa. By calling in Congress to confirm these powers, the President runs the risk of binding his hands in future emergencies...
...anthropologists had no facts to confirm or deny this latest Chinese claim. As far as they know, the Peking man's only relics were last seen in December 1941, when they were sent under U.S. Marine guard from Peking to the coast for wartime safekeeping in the U.S. But Pearl Harbor intervened, and the Marines spent the war in Japanese P.W. camps. The Peking man vanished. Some U.S. anthropologists believe that the precious bones lie unrecognized somewhere in North China. Or, by Chinese peasant custom, they may even have been ground up as "Dragon's Teeth" medicine...
...confirm the Premier's words, hundreds of university students gathered spontaneously outside the U.S. embassy in Rome to cheer. U.S. Ambassador Clare Boothe Luce, who had gone to the island of Sardinia, got word of the student demonstration and sent a message of thanks, ending with the words: "Long Live Italy...