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...megaton is an explosive energy of 1,800 ooo tons...
...Western Europe, the British will reduce their troops in Germany from 77,-ooo to 64.000 in the course of the next year, would like to cut them still more if their NATO allies will agree. More drastically, the Second Tactical Air Force in Germany will be cut in half. Both cuts will be somewhat offset, but not overcome, by supplying the remaining forces with atomic weapons. Aware that all this might appear to Europeans as an insular retreat, Sandys acknowledged that "the frontiers of the free world . . . must be firmly defended on the ground...
...people, another way by Moscow. Last week, faced with a chaotic farm problem, he retreated farther than any avowedly Socialist or Communist country ever has before from the doctrinaire Marxist position on land ownership. To encourage those collective farms still operating (some 7,500 of 10,-ooo have been abandoned since Gomulka took power) he will reduce by one-third the state requisitions from them, and pay twice as much for what the state does get. For other land, restrictions will be removed from ownership, leases, purchases and sales, and the "principle of the free transfer of property will...
Gibson Girls & Cowboys. Cowles Magazines, Inc. (Look) agreed to pay $1,000,-ooo for the magazine title Collier's and for Crowell-Collier's Reader's Service, a subscription company that sold Collier's and other magazines. Cowles also lent Crowell-Collier $1,000.000. In addition, Cowles agreed to assume responsibility for $11 million worth of unexpired Collier's subscriptions, said that former Collier's readers will have the choice of taking Look or "any one of several other magazines" or, if they insisted, cash refunds. Hearst's Good Housekeeping and McCall...
...next day, instead of the anticipated run on the bank, the town rallied around the bank and Uncle Bill. Depositors brought in more money than on almost any Saturday since the resort season ended; the busy, year-round Nevele Hotel & Country Club alone deposited $102,-ooo. A wooden booth went up in the town square with the placard: "We're behind you, Bill," and 3.000 residents lined up to sign a petition: "Ellenville is a finer place to live because of his unselfish leadership." Business leaders sent Rose a letter reaffirming the "unique regard we hold...