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...than strategy or politics. The really frightening aspect of the H-bomb, as disclosed in Truman's speech and Finletter's interview, is that nobody within a radius of 9.8 miles of the White House has accepted a clear responsibility of thinking through the dreadful-but not hopeless-problems that the new bomb raises...
...able to handle the additional work under the McCarran Act. In the meantime, the U.S. Immigration Service made a "gentleman's agreement" with the major foreign shipping lines to put an inspector aboard the big liners to screen the crews during the voyage; this would avoid a hopeless jam on arrival. The first inspector to try it was Leonard Martin, who went aboard the Liberte when it left New York Dec. 9, and spent the voyage to France and back screening the crew...
...Information smuggled out through the censorship indicated that the fiasco was engineered deliberately by Alberto Carnevali, underground commander of Acción Democrática, the majority party which was booted from power and outlawed by the junta four years ago. Carnevali had kissed off the election as a hopeless farce. He had advised A.D. men to go to the polls, as the law requires, but cast blank ballots. But gradually, through A.D.-de-coded government telegrams, he deduced that the junta would rely for victory on pre-election bribes and threats, and would actually allow a secret ballot...
...Kirawara, 48 miles north of Nairobi, an awe-struck crowd of 2,000 Kikuyu tribesmen squatted in the market place amid green bananas and calabash gourds, clapping their hands to their mouths to signify their proper respect for "Big Magic." A spindly-legged youth, thought to be a hopeless deaf-mute, had suddenly started prophesying that "God would arrive in Kirawara at one o'clock." Attracted by the commotion, a British-led patrol of Kenya's African police came crashing through the jungle, intent on arresting the prophet as a mouthpiece of the Mau Mau, the terrorist secret...
Billy Lucas had been a pathetic, apparently hopeless invalid ever since the third day after his birth in Palo Alto, Calif. That was three years ago. Billy's face was expressionless, his eyes never seemed to move, he could barely raise his eyelids. He could hardly swallow, and for two years he had to be fed through a tube. His arms were so feeble that he could not lift a spoon to his mouth, and he had to have steel braces to be able to stand...