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Disarmament will be Eisenhower's topic, since it is the U.S. that carries the heaviest arms burden (particularly in nuclear development). The State Department is convinced that Russia, essentially a poor nation, cannot keep up with the ever-increasing ante in the nuclear weapons game. Says State: if U.S. spending for defense were at the same rate as Russia's, considering the huge gap between the Soviet and U.S. economies, it would amount to $150 billion per year-almost four times the current U.S. rate. The U.S. wants first to probe the genuineness of the Russian desire...
...Naval Medical Research Institute reported on the Marshall Islanders who were exposed to moderate fallout from the great test explosion in the Pacific on March 1. 1954. Talking to physicians, he did not prettify. The most intensive study was made of 64 Marshallese whose island got the heaviest fallout. Hours after the detonation. a snowlike material fell from the sky. It whitened their hair and clung to their skins. At first it had no ill effect, but during the night and the next day or two, about three-fourths of the people felt nausea. Their skins itched or burned...
McNiff indicated that the late hours during the exam period were being continued because of the successful results of the program in January. "We found that the heaviest load on students came just a few days before their exams and during the exam period," he explained...
Behind Volpe, at six and five in the "engine room," are Bruce Dixon and Dick Weatherhead, two of the strongest and heaviest men on the squad. But Dickson didn't start rowing till last season, while Weatherhead is a convert from Harvey Love's heavies. Wilde also has another newcomer in Jack Henshaw...
...typical reactions were those rated "well adjusted," had few emotional or sex problems. The atypical reactors were relatively aimless, drifting types; they had suffered from demanding fathers and overprotective mothers (some had married young to find a mother-substitute), and bristled with anxiety and hostility. They were also the heaviest drinkers...