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...after the U.S. announced its decision to suspend tests for one year-the Russians had carried out at their Arctic test site a series of nuclear explosions so "dirty" that they increased the concentration of radioactive strontium 90 in the stratosphere by about 50%. They were by far the dirtiest nuclear tests since the much blamed U.S. tests in the Pacific...
...vivid writing, the sort of thing that will grab the reader by the lapels and command his attention." Last September Scott got a chance to put up or shut up; Sun Publisher Don Cromie, 43, called him in and said: "Jack, I'm about to play the dirtiest trick on you that I've ever inflicted on anyone. I'll give you $2,000 a month and the title of editorial director...
...Adams go. But he could not bring himself to ask for the resignation himself. To Meade Alcorn, longtime Adams friend and a fellow Dartmouth graduate, went the unenviable assignment of telling Adams. "You've got to handle it," said Ike. "It's your job, the dirtiest I can give you." Alcorn was delayed only by a frantic last-minute call from Maine's Republican Senator Frederick Payne, who insisted that, because both he and Adams had accepted Goldfine gifts, to impute dishonesty by firing Adams would surely beat him in his race for re-election against Democrat...
...pitch a little propaganda hay. He denounced the U.S. and Britain for continuing tests as long as they have-six months after Russia unilaterally "suspended" its nuclear-weapons testing. He completely ignored the fact that Russia's suspension came only after completion of one of the biggest, atomically "dirtiest," tests in human history-one whose scientific results could not possibly be compiled in less than a year. Khrushchev's blast had little apparent effect; the U.S., in fact, went ahead with its plans for ten small atomic shots in the Nevada desert before the Oct. 31 cutoff date...
...government has strained the economy by industrializing too fast, etc. But among other explanations, one pops up with dismaying consistency. Says one Nacionalista member of a Senate committee investigating corruption : "After what this committee has learned, I can safely say that we have in the Philippines today the dirtiest government in the world...