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Russia has three other main assets: 1) defensive strength based on self-sufficiency and tight political control of its own people; 2) a position within reach of the industrial centers of Western Europe, which are not beyond the logistical tether of the Red army; 3) possession of atomic bombs which might be able to reduce U.S. and other Western production to the level of the U.S.S.R...
...Lake Success the representatives of 60 nations anxiously waited for nine unhurried Chinese Communists led by a general named Wu Hsiu-chuan. Impatient U.N. delegates mulled over reports that the Chinese would reach New York by Nov. 24, speculated curiously about where the Chinese would eat and sleep. (One popular guess: in the Russians' rented mansion at Glen Cove...
Conductor Moore could not reach the engine. He later testified that he had peered forward from an inspection hatch on the top of the caboose (Australian passenger trains often carry cabooses), to see what was wrong. What he saw was not calculated to reassure him. A blonde female head was leaning out of the engineer's window on one side of the hurtling locomotive ahead. On the other side, another blonde female head protruded. Soon afterward the train pulled to a screaming stop in the middle of the desert. Wobbling perceptibly, Engine-driver Fred Leahy dismounted, wove away...
...Boudreau yesterday declared he is still undecided about his future but will probably reach a decision within five days. He is reported to be considering offers from the White Sox, Yankees, and Senators. The Washington offer became official yesterday...
...disappearance of the receding galaxies is a similar phenomenon and just as remarkable, in their view. Where the galaxies go, if "anywhere," they do not know. When they reach the speed of light with the stretching of space, they "just disappear." The mass of those that go "over the edge" of perception equals exactly the mass of the newly created hydrogen. In the same way, the water spilling out of a full tank equals the new water entering...