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...White's questions-but not the only one, as you implied-was: Will disarmament make the world safer? But the larger question he asked, as he has done before, was: Can we hope for peace without achieving "the vision of a federal union of free democratic capitalist states"? To this, as to the first question, his answer...
...argument full circle. Vice Admiral Charles E. Rosendahl, U.S.N. (ret.), a survivor of the Shenandoah crash but still the champion of the big, rigid ships, hastened to accuse the Navy of "questionable wisdom" in building oversized, noncompartmented blimps, suggested that with modern construction methods rigid airships would be far safer. Blimp men were equally quick to defend their ships. Even though he still could not explain the crash. Captain Frederick N. Klein Jr., commanding officer of Fleet Airship Wing One (which includes the three remaining ZPGs, along with some smaller blimps), insisted: "I still think we have the safest vehicle...
...betterment for workers and the poor. Yet in Nye, Socialism seemed locked in battle with a vaunting personal ambition. Time and again he reached the brink of power in his party and his country, only to lose the prize by rash behavior that made even his fellow Socialists feel safer in the hands of a competent but unexciting eminence like Clement Attlee...
...Submarines. When he thought he was being ignored, Rod complained to Congressmen. Says he: "All other things being equal, the average military procurement office would rather give a contract to a big firm because he thinks it is safer and he takes less personal risk. If the contract doesn't work out he always has the excuse that the big firm is well known and well established and should have performed better...
...nearest kitchen or Scout knife has saved many a life when used in emergencies to open the chest for massage of a stopped heart. But the method is risky. This week Johns Hopkins University researchers reported success in 50 cases with a faster and safer technique, suitable for use by laymen after a little training. The principle: closed-chest massage...