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Despite the fact that the Negro who does vault from slum to suburb is likely to be the economic and educational peer of his new neighbors, many whites react with unreasoning fear or hostility to the idea of having a Negro next door. Few things have done more to create this attitude than the high incidence of crime and violence in the black ghettos. Moreover, the swift deterioration of some public housing projects occupied by Negroes leads many whites to believe that the arrival of a Negro family is the certain prelude to garbage in the streets, broken windows, cockroaches...
...order for such a bomb to explode, the fissionable core material of plutonium (sketch point E) must be raised to a supercritical mass, the point where sufficient neutrons are released and react with the core material to sustain violent nuclear reactions. In the implosion bomb shown in the sketch, shaped charges of high explosives (B) are simultaneously triggered by detonators (A), the force of the explosions being directed inward, rapidly compressing the plutonium around a beryllium neutron source (D). In less than a millionth of a second, the supercritical mass explodes...
...exceedingly complex and sudden occurrence taking less than ten seconds." For one thing, witnesses overestimate time and distance according to how endangered they feel. They disagree on how fast the same car was going by as much as 25% . Perception also varies with physical condition: menstruating women, for example, react slowly, while older persons have less facility for perception of speed and depth. Interpretive judgments may vary with each individual's "age, race, nationality, sex, profession, religion-all his lifetime experience." Most people hear only what they want to hear. To an insecure professor, for example, the overheard phrase...
...shrewd half truths of colonial times, firmly established a belief in the impenetrable differentness of Asia. The situation was not helped by the fact that Asia itself had produced strikingly little written history. Today growing numbers of Americans have firsthand knowledge of how Asians think and feel, act and react -even though such knowledge is always beset by the danger of oversimplification. Diplomats, soldiers, businessmen, journalists, teachers and technicians constantly contribute to the growing body of "typical" Asian experiences...
...Jungle. "The game in the jungle," says the Big Red One's commanding officer, Major General William E. Depuy, "is to send in a small force as bait, let the enemy attack, and be able to react with a larger force in reserve near by. But if the enemy doesn't want to fight, then the jungle goes off in 360 directions. There just aren't enough landing zones in the jungle to corner Susie in the roundhouse...