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Last month, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky emphatically told the world that the peace-loving Soviet was using atomic energy for peaceful purposes "right now" (TIME, Nov. 21). Said he at Lake Success: "We are razing mountains; we are irrigating deserts." But in reporting his speech, Pravda made a significant switch: it quoted Vishinsky as saying only that Russia's atomic energists wanted to raze mountains...
...Basic had cost the Government $140 million, and it had its own town, named Henderson, of 1,000 houses. Only the Geneva steel plant ($200 million) and the Big and Little Big Inch pipelines ($146 million) had cost more. Incendiary bombs made from Basic's magnesium had helped raze Tokyo. But in peacetime, the War Assets Administration found it the whitest of elephants...
...Manly Art. Promoter Tex Rickard, the Barnum of boxing, came on the scene just when the Garden's owners were getting ready to raze it. They were so impressed by his money-making shows that, when the Garden was torn down, they raised $5,000,000 to build a new & bigger one on Eighth Avenue, later listed its shares on the New York Stock Exchange...
That same year, Illinois Governor Thomas Ford threatened to raze Nauvoo. The 38-year-old prophet surrendered himself as a hostage for his people-and sealed his own fate. A mob with their faces disguised with paint invaded Carthage jail, shot him as he tried to escape from a window. As he fell to the ground, a lyncher with a bowie knife prepared to cut off his head, despite the remonstrances of a horrified bystander (see cut). But as he died, the prophet had one more triumph; the sun blazed out, illuminating the jail yard, and the man with...
...University authorities, who have declared their intention to raze existing structures if necessary," he continued, "should have no qualms about destroying the monstrous edifice, often considered an insult to our local culture, which now squats upon the site...