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...drawing-board idea that testing might bring to reality. Compared with existing nuclear weapons, the neutron bomb would be cheaper and more adaptable to military purposes in the sense that its deadly "bullets" would shower specific areas without long-lasting contamination (TIME, Nov. 30, 1959). The first power to possess the neutron bomb will gain great military superiority. The Soviets, by their own admission, were experimenting with the neutron process as far back...
...crucial that the teacher possess a thorough knowledge of the material to be taught," as well as mastery of teaching methods...
...love' merely says what God means to us but says nothing of what we may mean to God, then it may arouse eros, the desire to possess, but not agape, the desire to serve. And a concept of God that does nothing to arouse the desire to serve him is irrelevant to man's deepest need. What man needs is not a God to serve him but a God to serve...
...could in part thank Governor John Patterson. A militant segregationist who solicited Ku Klux Klan support in his election campaign, Patterson once said that integration would come to Alabama only "over my dead body." In his inaugural address Patterson declared: "I will oppose with every ounce of energy I possess and will use every power at my command to prevent any mixing of white and Negro races in the classrooms of this state." Said he as the Freedom Riders approached: "The people of Alabama are so enraged that I cannot guarantee protection for this bunch of rabble-rousers...
...acres of cardboard and tin shacks. The bewildered inhabitants were ordered to clean up the debris, then were trucked off to a barren new site, where they were bundled into large tents in groups of four and five families. Chang's officers made it a prison offense to possess American cigarettes; in so doing, they wiped out a lucrative trade for thousands of otherwise unemployed elderly women and university students...