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...Nobody outside the Kremlin can say for sure. But there is every reason to believe her real, ultimate objective remains the same as always-to set up a universal Communist dictatorship run from Moscow. She thinks she can make better progress by concealing her bloodstained bludgeon under a pile of olive branches and trying the more subtle art of poison. By lulling the West she can revert to her early plot to gain control of the world by infiltration, through her fifth columns and similar subversive agents trained in Moscow...
Gangling John Henry is a goodhearted scientist who has discovered a mildly radioactive substance called Taurum while experimenting with gold at an atomic pile. Taurum turns into a crop multiplying wonder drug when applied to the soil. And John Henry, in search of more gold to convert, is soon in a head-whirling spin on the Washington merry-go-around. Author Alfred (Raising a Riot) Toombs's hot-weather farce hilariously ribs and roams the nation's capital, from cocktail binges to congressional investigations. The underlying moral, if there is one, is that the national sense of humor...
...emphasize the U.S.'s use of atomic energy for peaceful purposes, he drove out to the exhibition building which the U.S. has erected to house its atomic display for the forthcoming international atomic conference, peered down at the eerily glowing tank containing an experimental atomic pile, stared in admiration at the control panel's dials, buttons and graphs...
...only an unseasonable dry spell that summer, they pointed out, prevented the tennis courts from being ruined by stomping feet, and what they called the "sanitary facilities" had been deplorably inadequate. Jazz-loving Socialite Louis L. Lorillard promptly paid $22,500 for Belcourt, the enormous, run-down pile of the late O.H.P. Belmont, and announced that this was where things would jump during the festival's three days. At this the neighbors set up a well-modulated howl and complained to the city fathers. Eventual compromise: jam sessions in the city-owned ballfield, Freebody Park (seating 11,800), lectures...
...himself. It is an outward search for man's greatness. His interest is Man in a world of facts and action, the world's heroes, not its spiritual cripples or its Freudian oddities. To psychiatry's claim, "Man is what he hides, a wretched little pile of secrets," Malraux returns a proud answer, "Man is what he achieves...