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...Britain have repeatedly said they will never sign a treaty unless it spells out in detail a foolproof control and inspection system to prevent violations of a test ban. But on second look, there were no control provisions in the article they had approved in Geneva. Pressed, a U.S. spokesman admitted that the delegates had agreed to split the article in two, the control provisions being left in the second article. The Soviets, he explained, had "essentially adopted our language." "We will now get to the control system," he added...
...walk "the extra mile" toward peace, has President Eisenhower walked too far for U.S. security's sake? Yes, said two knowledgeable liberal Democrats last week. He did so when he ordered U.S. nuclear tests stopped for one year without the U.S.'s twelve-year-old precondition of foolproof inspection (TIME, Sept. 1), did so again when he endorsed a test inspection system prepared by his scientific advisers which admitted that relatively small Russian underground blasts (less than five kilotons) could probably not be detected...
...course there are malcontents: "Every now and then an old man, overtaken by a younger . . . turns to blame . . . the social order which makes possible the indignity he feels." And until testing methods were made foolproof, parents high in the meritocracy tried to give their occasional stupid children the appearance of wit, then ease them "into a cosy corner of one of the less exacting professions, such as law or stockbroking...
...Cleaning. What makes sewing more interesting than ever is that it is vastly easier. Even the clumsiest bachelor girl can sew professional-looking draperies with the aid of pre-pleating devices. Such accessories abound. John Dritz & Sons carries 100 items, introduced 18 new ones this year alone, including a "foolproof" buttonhole maker, electric scissors, upholstery-repair...
...responses to threats by force were the most important foreign-policy moves since Korea. As no mere reassuring pronouncement could do, they guaranteed that the most powerful arms in the world were on call to defend national freedom, that in its attempt to work toward a just and foolproof peace the free world could deal from ready strength and not from weakness...