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...hard to believe, folks in Massachusetts' Seventh Congressional District said, that Congressman Tom Lane was really in prison. Ask for a favor at his office in Lawrence, and his staff saw to it that the request got the same prompt, courteous attention it had in the past. Let there be a funeral or a wake in the Lawrence-Lynn area, and one of his aides was sure to attend, delicately dropping the word that he was there as Lane's personal representative. Even though he was serving a four-month term for evading $38,542 in income...
...Arthur Radford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, had proposed that the U.S. chop its armed forces from 2,800,000 men to 2,000.000 by 1960, in keeping with the development of nuclear weapons. To Germans the so-called Radford plan-and Sir Anthony Eden's prompt hints that Britain, too, planned to "go nuclear"-clearly foreshadowed a reduction in the number of Anglo-American troops stationed in West Germany, possibly even-in the excitable conclusion-jumping of the German press (and the New York Times)-a neo-isolationist U.S. retreat to "Fortress America." Adenauer had argued...
Immediate Treatment. For people whose injuries have made them unfit for duty but whose lives can be saved and who can be returned to duty by prompt treatment. Included will be victims of hemorrhage from an easily accessible site, quickly correctable respiratory defects, crushed limbs in which amputation is lifesaving, open fractures of major bones...
...bomb fallout, but it pointed the way to some speculation. Strauss's "operational factors" presumably refer chiefly to the altitude at which the weapons are exploded. The 1954 H-bomb test that made "7,000 square miles of territory ... so contaminated that survival might have depended on prompt evacuation" (according to the AEC's own reports) was exploded on a tower on a small coral island. Its fireball dug a deep crater and tossed millions of tons of pulverized coral into the air. This material, made highly radioactive by contact with the fireball, was the poisonous "atomic snow...
...possibility of a long strike worries Administration economists, worries industry, and worries the union rank and file. With the Federal Government committed to staying out of the picture as long as possible, it is precisely the economic pressures of the industry-union worry that will prompt a more rapid, more solid settlement...