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...Russian denunciations confirmed U.S. suspicions that the Kremlin is looking for an excuse to go ahead with a new series of nuclear tests. If the Russians do that, the Administration reasons, the U.S. will have no choice but to proceed with full-scale testing, and the last, faint hope for a nuclear test ban will vanish. To avoid giving the Russians an excuse, the U.S. canceled its tests...
...Faint as the test ban hope seems, President Kennedy clings to it. Last week Kennedy was cheerfully telling visitors that things were going well for his Administration. Then one of his guests mentioned the test ban impasse. The President's hand flopped down on the arm of his rocking chair. His jaw tightened. He shook his head. "If we don't get an agreement this time," he said, "that's about it. That's the end. We'll both go right on testing...
...went to Uganda to study the noble savages and swing their rhinoceros whips. He went to New Mexico, and while listening to the words of a Taos Indian chief, began for the first time to wonder about the morality of the Crusades. Everywhere he went he detected a "faint note of foolishness" clinging to his European clothes. To Jung, that was proof enough that Western man had "plunged down a cataract of progress," drawing him away from the unfinished business of the Middle Ages, the last age when man nakedly confronted the issues of good, evil and his God before...
...century and is rarely seen these days. With a silverpoint pen, Biddle works on paper treated with whiting to abrade the silver. He draws tiny line upon tiny line, and as the air oxidizes the deposited silver, the forms of birds or of flowers or of animal skulls emerge, faint and delicate as if sculpted in haze...
...them, says State Geologist Norman F. Williams, "are little old ladies who might be in their flower beds. They come dressed to kill and end up taking off their shoes, hiking up their skirts and wading in the mud." Women get the most excitement. Some of them shriek or faint when they find a tiny diamond...