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...being made by Abe Abrams and his U.S. Army fighting comrades lies the decision made by President John Kennedy last spring to increase the flexibility of the nation's defenses. The main shield of the U.S. remains the thermonuclear deterrent-the strategic missiles and bombers meant to discourage Nikita Khrushchev. But Kennedy holds that the Army must also be ready to fight with gunpowder or with tactical nuclear weapons anywhere from the plains of Europe to the rain forests of Asia. "We intend to have a wider choice than humiliation or all-out nuclear action," he said...
...clearly have it within their power to begin the job of building an alliance of free nations sharing the same values and traditions. The U.S. is by far the richest nation on earth; its allies in Western Europe far surpass Russia in wealth, industrial strength and manpower skill. Despite Nikita Khrushchev's vaunted boast to "bury" capitalism, the Soviet world is decades away from matching U.S. productivity and has not come near to solving a critical agricultural problem (TIME, May 26). In the so-called "peaceful competition" with the West, Khrushchev has been the loser so far-one reason...
...Nikita Khrushchev's war of nerves was plainly having an effect on the U.S. citizenry. Across the nation last week, there was endless conversation about the threat of nuclear war. There was apprehension and an edge of sadness as men and women looked at their children and wondered about their chances of survival. There were the usual neurotics. In Chicago, public officials received a spate of calls from women complaining that their hair curlers were radioactive, from men suspicious of the olives in their martinis (Chicago Psychiatrist Milton A. Dushkin named the ailment "nucleomitophobia"-fear of the atom...
...Force Chief of Staff Curtis LeMay is another who seldom makes public speeches-and minces no words when he does. Last week, attending an Air Force Association convention in Philadelphia, LeMay said that the U.S., despite all Nikita Khrushchev's boasts, is well ahead of the Soviet Union in its stockpile of "superbombs," and could have, if it had wanted to, built a 100-megaton bomb "a long time...
...send a U.N. force into the Congo, in a sense because Hammarskjold shamed them into it; later, they turned viciously against him when he refused to allow Russia in effect to take over from the U.N. in the Congo. Thumping his fists, waving his shoe, Moscow's Premier Nikita Khrushchev appalled the General Assembly as he campaigned for Hammarskjold's destruction. "Whose saint is he? . . . It is not proper for a man who has flouted elementary justice to hold such an important post," cried Nikita. Hammarskjold listened, immobile, his hands folded against his chin. Then, pursing his lips...