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...Lenten days that began March 3 and will end at Eastertide* have been for Christians a time for prayer and devotion, and for all men a time of urgency and stress. History, poised between Ivy and Jughead, between the 38th parallel and Dienbienphu, has enforced a Lenten mood upon the nations with the sack cloth of political conflict and showers of radioactive ash. The chocolate bunnies, the dizzy eggs and the pretty bonnets of Easter are the more incongruous for it. For Lent looks to the real Easter; and to lift high that great light in man's darkness...
...upcoming test of "Jughead," the 45-megaton bomb, would produce a radius of approximately 6.7 miles of utter destruction and 22.3 miles of severe-to-slight blast damage. Jughead's calculated effects on some major U.S. cities...
...probable that Bainbridge has not been entirely objective in this book. Although he quotes people who say that Shor is an "egotistical jughead" who is as "phoney as a three dollar bill," the overall tone is one of towering admiration. If the book suffers from this one-sidedness, it is only to those who would want the man to appear as very few see him. Bainbridge's work is not a black and white one. Rather, it shows Shor as a genial operative whom a let of people like...
...frame of ex-Governor Richard W. Leche, indicted him for conspiracy to defraud the U. S. in an illegal $148,000 sale of State-owned oil lands, for which he allegedly received a $67,000 cut. Beefy Mr. Leche, always known to the late Huey Long as "Jughead," and a one-third inheritor of Huey's empire, had suddenly resigned his Governorship in June after 37 months' rule, saying: "I shall probably fool around some in the oil business." Indicted with him was Seymour Weiss, who polished Huey's manners, also inherited one-third. No. 3 inheritor...