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Russian Option. Special Envoy Ball, finally and flatly rebuffed by Makarios, grimly left the island, stopping off in Turkey and Greece to urge calm and caution on both governments. Aware that Cyprus was going to the U.N., Britain and the U.S. activated their last-ditch plan. London, about an hour ahead of Cyprus, requested an "early meeting" of the Security Council to deal with the "dangerous situation" posed by the fratricidal fighting. The British move was strictly procedural, and its aim was to get before the forum of the world the Anglo-American conviction that first things should come first...
After that, it was all but over. The bill next faces a last-ditch Democratic filibuster in the Senate. Its major clauses...
Although many girls pleaded for calm, thoughtful discussion, and that "politics be kept out of it," the bill's supporters were often vehement in attacking their opponents. One Barnard girl damned "last ditch conservatives" in Briggs for using "diabolically clever tactics" against the bill...
Ploughshare has yet to dig any canal-like ditches with long lines of nuclear explosions, but it has experimented elaborately with chemical shots and believes it knows the basic laws that govern both kinds of blasts. If nuclear explosives are placed in "strings" with the distance between them equal to half the diameter of the crater that a single shot would dig, and if they are exploded simultaneously, they will excavate a smooth-bottomed ditch, throwing the rock to the sides. One hundred shots, for instance, of 100 kilotons each, will dig a ditch 1,600 ft. wide...
...returned unharmed. But the film is no mere polemic. The story begins with a business conclave in a luxurious home perched on a hilltop high above the smoking slums of Yokohama. While a shoe company executive named Gondo (Toshiro Mifune) struggles with his unprincipled colleagues in a last-ditch fight for control of the firm, a kidnaper strikes. Intending to seize Gondo's young son, he nabs the chauffeur's boy by mistake. Swiftly, the issues narrow to meaningful dimensions: Gondo faces ruin unless he uses his last 50 million yen (approximately $139,000) to consummate a secret...