Word: disruptions
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...roads leading into Greece from its Communist neighbors, the guerrillas control five-two from Bulgaria, two from Yugoslavia, and one from Albania. One high-ranking U.S. officer said last week: "So long as it's Communist policy to disrupt Greece by permitting guerrillas to cross and recross the borders there will be war in Greece...
...Country. All winter, Dr. John Simpson of the University of Chicago's Institute for Nuclear Studies flew back & forth between the northern U.S. and Lima, Peru, in a Navy Bag packed with special instruments. He was hunting neutrons, those subtle particles that slip into atomic nuclei and often disrupt them with bangs of radiation. He found plenty of neutrons. The higher he flew the more he found. They were not invaders from space, his studies told him, but were spattered out of atmospheric nuclei struck by cosmic rays...
This was rather less than Pyongyang had hoped for from Kimm and Kim. The Reds were doing everything they could think of to disrupt this week's elections, which would lead to a free Korean government in the south. They had proclaimed a People's Republic of All Korea. Then, last week, Russia announced that "necessary arrangements" had been made to pull its troops out of Korea entirely "in order to make American troops withdraw from Korea simultaneously." The Russian-controlled North Korea radio broadcast an election-eve message to U.S. Zone Commander Lieut. General John R. Hodge...
...terrifying experience with proctors. "I took an hour exam at Harvard," she said. "May pen went dry and I tried to borrow ink from a neighbor. You'd have thought I'd thrown a bomb. The proctors all rushed in my direction, whispering and shushing with enough racket to disrupt the whole room for five minutes...
That was where matters stood last week. Congress' job was clear, but not simple: to design, on a budget which would not disrupt the peacetime economy, a Military Establishment which would lay the foundation for a strong, permanent defense force, but was capable of meeting an emergency the day after tomorrow. That was the task. Unless Congress did it, the Military Establishment, which should look like St. George ready for the dragon, would look more like Alice's White Knight, hung with carrots, fire tongs, bellows, beehives and mousetraps...