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...radioactive cloud drifted eastward. A thick, dense column of dust reached into the sky behind it; below, a flat lake dust covered vast acres of desert. An hour passed before Army helicopters brought surprisingly chipper G.I.s from the trenches. Only two miles from Ground Zero, heat and light had passed over them as they crouched face down. The grey dust cloud they saw later, they were told was not dangerously radioactive. They had learned the lesson that atom bombs may spare careful soldiers who keep their distance and are well...
...dust cloud with its waning radio activity drifted harmlessly eastward ,but the ruins left behind at Yucca Flat impressed some observers more than others. For an area nearly a mile and a half long and almost as wide, the desert had been made dangerous with radioactivity. Hopefully, FCDA men announced that the bomb shelters in the cellar of House Two would have saved real inhabitants. Perhaps said dubious AEC officials, but it would be helpful to remember a few facts. The "Diagnostic Device" was less powerful than the primitive A-bomb dropped on Nagasaki. It probably packed the punch...
Three other major factors with which the Protestant African missions will have to deal, says Dr. Van Dusen, are: 1) "the whirlwind of social, economic and political dislocations which are sweeping from the west coast eastward and southward"; 2) the multiplying activities of governments in fields previously dominated by the missions; 3) the expansion of Roman Catholicism, "especially in French, Belgian, Portuguese and Spanish territories...
...post was an eight-man weather station on Fletcher's Island, a great mass of ice floating in the Arctic Ocean. It was discovered more than two years ago by the Alaskan Air Command, and colonized last March with assorted weathermen, scientists and communication experts. Then, moving eastward at 2½ miles a day, it floated into the jurisdiction of the Northeast Air Command...
...Alaskan airmen did not put up much of a fight. After a tricky deployment of Pentagon charts of organization, the ice men became naturalized employees of the Northeast Air Command (headquarters: Pepperrell Air Force Base, Newfoundland). If Fletcher's Island continues to creep far enough eastward, it will eventually enter the territory of some Soviet air command. Then the Air Force guardian of lines of demarcation will have a trickier problem...