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...East Berlin riots in 1953 and the Hungarian revolution of 1956 and as they did last week, with the pressure mounting over Berlin. To a world that was surprised as much as it was dismayed (see THE WORLD). Nikita Khrushchev announced that the Soviet Union would resume test ing its nuclear weapons, boasted of a superbomb that had the force of 100 million tons of TNT-5,000 times the size of the A-bomb that leveled Hiroshima, and five times the size of the biggest bomb in the U.S. arsenal. Two days later, the testing began with a medium...
...have arrived without guns on their shoulders. The President is counting on you. It's up to you to prove that the concepts and ideals of the American Revolution are still alive." Then, in a peroration more notable for its locker-room emotion than for its accurate understand ing of world opinion, he concluded: "Foreigners think we're fat, dumb and happy over here. They don't think we've got the stuff to make personal sacrifices for our way of life. You must show them...
...Paris, the West's foreign ministers found the question pressing in on their discussions. They were cheered by the evidence of discontent in East Germany, but worried, too-afraid that an uprising in East Germany would complicate, not help, the Berlin situation. Their realistic read ing was no doubt based on the theory that if the West should intervene in favor of any East German rebels, Soviet Russia would more likely go to war than to the bargaining table; if the West stood aside while the Soviet troops squelched an uprising, aroused public opinion in the West (especially...
...would look at the annual losses and scribble a six-figure check. Today, contributions account for only 12% of Met income. Pre-Depression grand opera paid its own way in the U.S., but it presumably never will again. Both Bing and Manuti went on record last week as favor ing some form of Government support...
...advantage by gambling $18 million to build a prototype for the Air Force to look at before it bought. With 40% of the world jet market, Boeing has so far sold 439 of its 707s, its medium-range 720s and its short-range 727s (first deliveries in 1963). Boe ing has succeeded in paying its development costs only by writing them off against its other profitable divisions. Still. Boeing President William M. Allen is the most optimistic company head in the business. Says he: "If present sales trends continue, we should ultimately reach the break-even point on all present...