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...strange breed of professional weapons testers who have traveled the atomic route in the conviction that what they are doing will make the U.S. stronger. They are fascinated by their wondrous weapons, whose forces even they do not fully understand. Another such tester, Physicist Walter Goad Jr. of the University of California's Scientific Laboratory at Los Alamos, puts their view simply: "Everyone here recognizes that these weapons are terribly destructive and that we don't know what will ultimately happen. But we feel that in a world of so much force, we have to be able...
...Kazin admits, solemnly regretting the middle-brow docility of his congregation. In the course of letting some of the air out of Drama Critic Kenneth Tynan, Kazin discovers a maxim he himself would do well to follow. The British writer's rule, he reports, is "rouse tempers, goad, lacerate, raise whirlwinds." Kazin does none of these things as he dolefully doles out justice...
...tumultuous night, the S.A.O. strategy went completely off the rails. Raoul Salan and his S.A.O. staff planned to goad the Moslems with indiscriminate terror attacks until they lashed back with mob action against the Europeans. According to S.A.O. theory, once both sides were locked in racial war the French army would not hesitate to intervene on the side of the European pieds-noirs. But someone blundered, in what may well prove to be the fatal turning point for the S.A.O...
...Tennessee's onetime (1953-59) Boy Governor Frank Goad Clement, who rocketed to national attention as the 1956 Democratic Convention's "How long, oh how long, America?" keynoter and afterward faded into a Nashville law practice, announced that he will run again for Governor. Said Clement, now 41: "I am ten years older than when I first ran for Governor and I hope ten years more mature." With meager opposition and no run-off Democratic primary (as in most other Southern states), Clement probably will...
...week discipline was beginning to slip. Excited by the daytime fasting required by the month-long celebration of Ramadan, infuriated by bombings and indiscriminate killing, the Moslems were beginning to strike back with mass violence of their own. That is precisely the aim of the S.A.O., which hopes to goad the Moslems into a full-scale racial war; in that event the S.A.O. feels confident that the French army will side with the Europeans. The terrorists also hope to show the world that French troops and police no longer control the cities of Algiers and Oran, thus any agreement with...