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...steel-shielded command post, where nine-foot-high maps slide on tracks along the wall. Here the word of enemy attack would come, and from here the word would be flashed to the White House. Day & night a general officer is on duty in the command post, empowered to hurl the U.S. air force into action at Truman's order if an emergency demanded...
...their attacks on his snowballing budget deficit and the portside list of his Fair Deal. This time the President lacked a keynote as succinct as his "worst Congress in history" battle cry of 1948; Harold Stassen last week tried to give the Republicans as simple a credo to hurl back. "President Truman," said Stassen, "is the cleverest politician . . . and . . . the worst President ever to occupy the White House...
...Betty Grable, the Lone Ranger and Milton Berle are the diet of our children." The only hope, Hutchins thinks, is subscription radio or heavily endowed university networks-neither of which seems likely. His gloomy conclusion: "We can expect no improvement until the day the American people rise up and hurl their radio sets into the streets. But that day will probably never come; we have got so we need the noise...
Early in the film, as Maigret suffers Radek's taunts at the Eiffel Tower restaurant, you get the upsetting impression that Radek would like to do nothing better than hurl himself from the tower to show his scorn for humanity. Despite numerous old Hollywood traditions, Radek does not jump, thereby supplying one of the film's pleasantest surprises. He comes breathlessly close, however, in a series of amazing shots that will make you wonder whether or not Tone and Meredith actually did clamber all over this maze of girders. How Maigret bloodlessly outwits Radek proves a vastly satisfying...
...President's military counselors argued that the U.S. could be easily, quickly crippled by an enemy which could hurl H-bombs without risk of retaliation in kind, that furthermore the H-bomb in the hands of the U.S. would be the best possible insurance against war. They added that the cost of an H-bomb project to the U.S. would run closer to $300 million than the first guess of $2 billion to $4 billion...