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...massive counter-force, Mr. Hughes emphasized, has come only recently. In effect the United States will now build nuclear power capable, of in air force terminology, of "winning" a thermonuclear war. American force will not only be strong enough to wipe out all Soviet missle basis in a fist strike. But, even after U.S. first-line bases have been attacked, U.S. power will be capable of destroying cities in a second major blow. In the past, Hughes stressed, American strategy had relied on a minimum force, sufficient to deter Russian attacks, but had discounted the notion of "Prevailing...
...Aldo Calo, 52, can turn out spiky sculptures that look like giant cacti or a cluster of forms tailored to elegance. But he also has a passion for "the free gesture." He often punches his fist through a plaque of wax, which is then cast into bronze. Another "free gesture'' was achieved by smashing a hole through a triangular piece of wood with a sledge hammer...
...arms, as if in benediction, and 1,000 Peruvian Indians at the airport in the remote jungle town of Iquitos responded with a thunderclap cheer: "Haya presidente! APRA never dies!" The visitor beamed, waved, headed a parade over a red dirt road into town, and there delivered a fiery, fist-shaking speech in a plaza ringed by royal palms and mango trees. "Five centuries ago millions of Incas lived well in Peru," he cried. "There is no reason we cannot do better today!" "APRA, APRA!" screamed the crowd...
President Kennedy would have been much more in character had he emphasized his points, at his press conference on steel, with his shoe rather than his fist...
Photographers' stools clattered to the floor, women screamed, and Japan's pocket paparazzi crawled all over one another for a better shot. In the eye of the storm at Tokyo International Airport, the dapper figure stood unruffled, not even clenching a tiny fist. "Too much has been written about me being difficult and obstinate," crooned a newly mellow Frank Sinatra, 46, on the first stop in a two-month world tour to raise money for children's charities. "There's no new Sinatra. The difficulty has been on the other side." To prove it, Frankie actually...