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...this point, Dulles took a look backward: "I believe that the original Korean attack would not have occurred if it had not been assumed either that we would not react at all, or, if we did react, would react only at the place and by the means that the aggressors chose...
...Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Professor (of physics) Victor F. Weisskopf, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, says: "Whereas there are now numerically fewer refusals of visas, there are considerably fewer applications, as many foreign scientists react against the needless indignities and delays accompanying them. Rather than become involved in long, drawn-out procedures . . . [they show] complete reluctance to visit the U.S. for meetings...
...involvement in a fresh war in Indo-China. For another, Treasury Secretary Humphrey and Budget Director Dodge have warned that a stepped-up military program will ruin their crusade for a balanced budget. The State Department, for its part, is worrying about how its European allies, notably Britain, might react to direct intervention, or even to a blockade of Communist China...
Chinese intellectuals are sure to react unfavorably to the type of thought-control instituted by the Communists, because it is in direct repudiation of China's past and culture. This is even more true, because "Intellectual life in China today must be not only Communist, but Russian," Tingfu charged...
...withering blast of heat and flame followed, searing everything in its path. On the third deck, Steward Osie Ward and ten of his shipmates were trapped in the stewards' compartment. "A big flame came down the hatchway to our compartment," said Ward. "At first we didn't react. But a split second later the same thing happened again. One of the men, who was getting ready for a shower, ran up the hatchway and into the flame. The ensign and I pulled him down." But the .sailor was fatally burned...