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...their favor, they would undoubtedly stall them on "technical grounds" and start more trouble. Their first countermove was to demand that the balky North Koreans be worked on again before any more Chinese were interviewed, apparently hoping that the North Koreans would clash with the Indian troops and thereby divert attention from their own red Red faces...
...Chairman J. Robert Oppenheimer, as spokesman, advanced two principal reasons: 1) a thermonuclear bomb would divert personnel and raw material from the A-bomb program, and hence the U.S. was giving up a known, certain thing to try an uncertainty; and 2) the U.S. should try again to negotiate a disarmament program with the Russians. The report's key passage said, approximately: Not one of us thinks the thermonuclear bomb should be made. The President should tell the people that the bomb is fundamentally and ethically wrong...
...Diana Lynn), a mysterious fellow with a crew cut and smoked glasses (Sean McGlory). The feverish chasing is punctuated with slugging and shooting. This sort of thing has been done better a number of times, but the scenery, shot on the spot in Mexico, is almost striking enough to divert the moviegoer's attention from the foolish events going on in the foreground...
When the McCarthy evangel began in 1950, the liberals saw in his distortions and exaggerations a chance to divert attention from the bedroom scene. They began to construct the myth of McCarthy's great power and his menace to liberty...
...Claus. Reason : his four-man staff was busy working on this year's Christmas card de signs for gift subscriptions to TIME Inc. magazines. To help the mood, Gangel had tacked sprigs of holly, some toy reindeer and a couple of pine cones above the drawing boards to divert his artists from thoughts of the latest baseball score, the nearest golf course, or caricatures of the boss...