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...Hanover?" Others emphasized the attractions of living in West Germany ("near the French border" was one lure), Vienna, even Majorca. Despite West Berlin's lavish tax concessions to new industry, almost every Berlin-based company of note had put down a zweites Bein, or second leg, in safer territory...
...brutal way, Khrushchev demonstrated a fact of international life: that the neutrals, though they fancy themselves the conscience of mankind, act generally out of naked self-interest. And their self-interest tells them that it is safer to cock a snoot at the U.S. than at Moscow...
What are the dangers? All near surface tests are classed as "atmospheric" because their radioactive byproducts mix with the atmosphere and may be carried around the earth. Tests exploded under the sea are of much the same nature. Underground shots are considerably safer. The U.S. has fired about half a dozen small tests in tunnels dug into Nevada mountains. Their radioactivity was well confined, and so far there have been no reports of contaminated ground water, but large underground tests could conceivably poison the water supply of an entire state. For relatively small nuclear devices the U.S. is likely...
...after getting a mechanical engineering degree at Purdue. He flew 100 combat missions in the Korean war (Distinguished Flying Cross, two Air Medals), returned to the U.S. as a pilot instructor at Bryan, Texas. Says his pretty wife, Betty (they have two boys): "He told me Korea was safer than teaching cadets how to fly. He said flying was even safer than driving...
...East Germans-almost one-fourth of East Germany's entire present population-have fled to the West. Some have braved the guards, watchdogs and barbed wire to slip directly across the long, 400-mile zonal frontier that separates the two Germanys. But most have chosen the safer route through occupied Berlin, where, by Big Four agreement, anyone can ride the subway or elevated train to the freedom of West Berlin, where airliners are waiting to whisk them to safety in West Germany itself...