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...distant general matters: What next in disarmament talks with Russia? What meaning for the West in the Sino-Soviet split? But in a kind of corridor warfare and in separate bilateral meetings, some factions tried to maneuver the U.S. into giving Europe more say in the use of the H-bomb, and others looked for ways to frustrate Charles de Gaulle's force de dissuasion...
Meet the Press (NBC, 6-6:30 p.m.). Guest is Dr. Edward Teller, noted nuclear physicist and a chief architect of the H-bomb...
...spite of the script, Mondo Cane is a gripping and sometimes extremely moving film. The most powerful scene was filmed on an island near Bikini, showing how animals and birds have been violently affected by the radiation from H-bomb tests. Fish have come out of the water to live in trees, and birds have tunneled underground, never to fly again. Other birds have been trying for years to hatch eggs killed by the bomb, and sea turtles whose sense of direction has been destroyed by radiation crawl inland and die after laying their eggs. After a panorama shot...
...retorted a high-ranking French official. France, he insisted, will have its first 50 Mirage IV A-bombers in service by December 1965, on schedule; expects to have its own H-bomb "well before" 1970; and is actually ahead of schedule with its missile-launching submarine, now due in 1968. Thus De Gaulle had no reason to back away from his declared aim of nuclear independence. As the Gaullist Paris-Presse pointed out, "it is his partners who have greatly changed their tone" since the general rejected the U.S. offer of NATO-committed Polaris missiles last January...
...Enrico Fermi, future U.S. father of the Abomb. U.S. Physicist Robert Oppenheimer, winner last week of the AEC's Fermi Award (see PEOPLE), got his Ph.D. at Göttingen in 1927. Another Göttingen recruit: Hungary's Edward Teller, future U.S. father of the H-bomb...