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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...treaty by which the signatory nations would agree not to produce or use atomic bombs. Within three months of signing, all nations manufacturing atomic explosives (i.e., the U.S.) would cease & desist and destroy their stockpiles. Within six months each nation would enact laws severely punishing treaty violations which might occur within its own borders...
...faults he can find in it, or how superior he can feel to the writer. He reads to be entertained and, incidentally, to widen his vision of the world in which he lives. If a writer takes him into the presence of Roosevelt, Hitler, and Stalin, it would never occur to him to require legal proof that such an experience ever did happen to any one man in the course of one year...
...records of the modern world, they will probably declare Albert Einstein the 20th Century's greatest mind. Among 20th-century men, he blends to an extraordinary degree those highly distilled powers of intellect, intuition and imagination which are rarely combined in one mind, but which, when they do occur together, men call genius. It was all but inevitable that this genius should appear in the field of science, for 20th-Century civilization is first & foremost technological...
Knickerbocker's last words: "Whether the marriage will actually occur must remain a matter of speculation for a few months. . . ." Winchell just...
While the body grows leaner and weaker, subtler, more dangerous changes occur. Vitamin deficiency causes bones to soften. Protein-deficient diet causes edema-a swelling of arms, legs and abdomen because of waterlogged tissues. Hair and teeth may fall out. Children stop growing...