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...Twin Weapons. Sam Morison writes with grace-and without ham-handed politeness. Interservice etiquette bothers him not at all. The soldiers at Makin were "miserably slow," and their fellows from the same division (the 27th) at Eniwetok were "all right but their training and leadership alike were poor." On the other hand, the 7th Division profited from Attu and was smart in the Marshalls...
...separate command in 1948, impulsive "Pete" Quesada put in for retirement. He was independently well-to-do and married to the daughter of wealthy Publisher Joseph Pulitzer of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. But the Air Force persuaded him to stay on to take charge of the Eniwetok atomic tests...
...blow. And all this is again the fault of the Americans. Not only do they occupy our land . . . but they shut off our sunshine!" The Communist journal then expounded a thoroughly unlikely theory that France's bad weather was the direct result of U.S. atomic experiments on faraway Eniwetok Atoll. "Thus," it cried, "while we wait to receive the atom bomb they are preparing ... the American experiments at Eniwetok are permitting us to taste already those thunderous storms which are devastating our crops and raising even higher the market price of cherries and salads...
Early one May morning, a roaring pillar of flame hurtled up over Eniwetok Atoll. In brief and terrible seconds the fireball blossomed into the mushrooming cloud that hovers like some sinister symbol over atomic explosions. Afterwards, as soon as things were reasonably safe, scientists, construction crews and military technicians from Joint Task Force Three swarmed ashore at the "target" island. They measured what was left to measure, studied the effects of the blast that had been seen as far as Kwajalein, 375 miles away, made ready to conduct still more tests. Then, after two years of work and two months...
...Orleans States and a Democratic Congressman since 1941, Louisiana's F. (for Felix) Edward Hébert (pronounced Abear) knows what makes a news story. This spring he got his hands on a natural: along with three other Congressmen and a Senator he went to Eniwetok for the latest atomic bomb tests (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), from which all working newsmen were banned. Before he left, Hebert agreed to do an exclusive series on the tests for his old paper...