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...tests lie the lessons of experience. The tortuous route from the first U.S. atomic blast at Alamogordo, N. Mex., to the latest at Christmas Island stretches over nearly 17 years; it includes nearly 200 atomic explosions, about 100 megatons of nuclear energy set free in the atmosphere, 353 fruitless diplomatic test-ban meetings. The men who traveled that road were filled with doubts about their eventual destination, and at every crossroads they argued bitterly over which turn to take. Much of the history of atomic testing has been forgotten, but once recounted, its meaning is clear...
...people in John Updike's world are tormented. They live with a continual, painful awareness of their fruitless past, their foolish present, and their ultimate doom...
...Parade, goes back on Oct. 1 as its $22,500-a-year boss. A herpetologist who once missed a TV show because a rattler bit him on the hand during rehearsal. Perkins has directed Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo since 1944. accompanied Sir Edmund Hil lary in a fruitless Himalayan hunt for the Abominable Snowman in 1960. St. Louis should prove almost as lively. Among the charges passed on by retiring (after 40 years) Zoo Director George P. Vierhel-ler, 79: a troupe of dancing elephants, a joint lion-tiger-leopard training act, and Mr. Moke, the talking chimp...
...years ago, has a ready laugh still untainted by cynicism. He knows it seems quixotic for a lone scientist to question the demands which the United States government has made at Geneva, but he has been frustrated for two years in winning a responsive, influential audience. After his fruitless visits to Washington he described to his Nat. Sci. 10 class why he suspected the detection data was inaccurate. Thus the story broke; he has since been interviewed by several publications, but none has yet run anything. Cambridge 38 is planning to carry a piece by Leet himself in the forthcoming...
...more ambitious members of the group argued that they would not enjoy (or remain passively involved in) a fruitless association with young Americans who did little but play tennis and watch movies, and that they felt no obligations to treat the Africans any differently...