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...volunteers showed signs of shock after a 35-g deceleration, Stapp lost no time repeating the run himself. His vision blurred to a smoky green fog, and he wound up with a body full of bruises where he had slammed against his harness. His right hand slipped from its grip on the seat's arm rest and his wrist broke as it hit against the hand grip. But he had discovered what he set out to find: the previous rider had failed to keep his head down while decelerating, and his helmet had been pulled off. With...
...said, "believes that he has found another kind of peace-peace of mutual forbearance, in which each nation pursues its own aims in every way short of armed conflict." Such a peace, prophesied Rhee, will lead to disaster because 1) "it gives the Communists the chance ... to fix their grip permanently on conquered areas," and 2) "the Communists themselves will not abide...
...Sent next to Guatemala, where Communists were fastening their grip on that Caribbean republic, he spent one long evening with President Jacobo Arbenz and cabled Washington: "If he isn't a Communist, he'll do until a better one comes along." When the anti-Arbenz pressure exploded into revolution last year, Peurifoy, sport-shirted and packing a pistol, maneuvered the rival revolutionary chieftains into an agreement and averted a nasty civil war. As the U.S. saluted the ouster of Guatemala's Communists as a major victory, ambitious Jack Peurifoy was off to Bangkok to succeed "Wild Bill...
Warming to his subject and maintaining his lapel grip, Khrushchev launched an attack on "responsible people in the U.S." who "read tea leaves" and talk of Soviet weakness. Some people, he said, "ponder why the Soviet Union has made so many proposals that please the West." They seem to think that if the Soviet Union makes a good decision "there is something that forced it to make that decision, and even that the Soviet Union fears some catastrophe if it does not." Let me tell you, said Khrushchev, letting go of Walmsley's coat but grasping his arm instead...
Concessions. But Perón got back his grip only at the cost of at least one implicit concession. His knockdown battle with the church became a wary standoff, not even mentioned in his speech. Said Hugo di Pietro, Peronista labor boss: "This is a time for reconciliation. There will be no church issue." Though most priests still wore cautious mufti in the streets (Argentines vied in trying to spot them by their black socks and clumsily knotted neckties), some ventured boldly out in cassocks. Most of the arrested priests were hastily freed. The government sent policemen to guard churches...