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...York boy becomes a philosopher. B. H. Friedman's Whisper (in Noble Savage) is a softly sizzling portrait of the big-town big shot caught in the rat race and insisting he loves it. Joseph Kostolefsky, in the same magazine, refashions arty cliché with a lethal satire called An All-Purpose Serious Sensitive Prize-Winning Story. In Contact, John Phillips, son of J. P. Marquand, writes a mordant story of an ex-G.I. and his wife, who tour the Southern France where he once fought...
...Communist probes-is much more broadly based. Our confidence in our ability to deter Communist action, or resist Communist blackmail, is based upon a sober appreciation of the relative military power of the two sides. The fact is that this nation has a nuclear retaliatory force of such lethal power that an enemy move which brought it into play would be an act of self-destruction on his part. The United States has today hundreds of intercontinental bombers capable of reaching the Soviet Union, including 600 heavy bombers and many more medium bombers equally capable of intercontinental operations because...
...bomb first burst, it would suck up millions of tons of earth and other debris, carrying them to over 100,000 ft. into the air and saturating them with more than 200 species of radioactive particles. Depending on wind and other conditions, these particles would fall back in lethal quantities over an area extending perhaps 150 miles from ground zero. As a rough rule of thumb, lag between the bomb's flash and the beginning of fallout might be figured at one minute for each quarter-mile from ground zero; thus, at 30 miles it would be two hours...
...small iron cot in blue pajamas with a feeding tube up his nose-to scotch any speculation about mistreatment. Istanbul's medical report indicated an overdose of sleeping pills. Menderes, who had complained of insomnia, had been given pills by prison doctors, had probably hoarded a near-lethal cache in the lining of his suit. Only a few days before, Menderes had observed to a visitor: "Why didn't they kill me right away at the time of the revolt? This way I die every...
...director was Charles W. Sweeney, 41. well-heeled leather manufacturer and a brigadier general in the Air Force Reserve. Previous experience: piloting the B-29 that flew as wing plane on the first atomic strike over Hiroshima and of the one that three days later dropped the even more lethal Nagasaki bomb...