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...Super Sabres scorched the earth with napalm. A Falcon rocket burst from an F106 Delta Dart, sent a drone aircraft to the ground in blazing bits. As a Tactical Air Command flight of F-105s sped overhead, a simulated nuclear bomb was exploded in a miniature fireball and nonradioactive mushroom cloud. As the waves of noise, heat and blast rolled across Florida's Eglin Air Force Base, Commander in Chief John Kennedy grinned from a rocking chair. The U.S. Air Force was putting on a show for the boss-and the boss seemed impressed...
...secrecy on the Christmas Island operations-admittedly more for psychological than for security reasons (after all, the Russians could learn with instruments just as much about these tests as the U.S. learned about theirs). There were to be no eyewitness news reports from Christmas Island, no photographs of mushroom clouds over the Pacific. A medical officer returning from Christmas told reporters in Hawaii: "I can't even tell you if we've got any Band-Aids out there." Arranged Reaction. Such secrecy precautions seemed superfluous. Most of the world's peoples were well aware that...
...Mushroom & the Pearl. Each country has a name for its hovels- in Chile they are callampas (mushrooms) because they sprout so fast; in Argentina, villas miserias (misery towns). The names reflect the inhabitants' pitiable hope or bitter humor. In Lima, one of the worst is wryly called Perla del Sol, meaning Pearl of the Sun. Defacing Rio's beautiful mountainsides are slums so flimsy that they periodically collapse in the rain and slide like an avalanche to the bottom...
They try to achieve tathata (or "such-ness") through prayer, liturgy and ceremonies involving ritual lovemaking and liberal doses of happy pills made from yellow mushrooms. Those who think the only fun in fungi is in a mushroom omelet may be skeptical when they read that things are just short of perfect in Pala-"a small island completely surrounded by twenty-nine hundred million mental cases." And why did not Huxley heed the warning of one of his own characters that "Eastern philosophers are often rather bad talkers"? Weight of Dandruff. Huxley's hero is William Farnaby, a successful...
...underground nuclear tests may not produce a fiery mushroom cloud but there is one above-ground effect that anyone can see. ] Shortly after each recent blast, a strange dent has appeared in the ground at the Yucca Flats, Nev., test center. Some of the depressions are only a few feet deep, but two of them are 50 ft. deep and several hundred feet across. The holes are not craters; nothing is blown out. There is no radioactivitiy, and the level of the ground around the depressions is not raised. But millions of cubic feet of dirt have apparently disappeared...