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Such rocket strikes would probably be few. but in all-out nuclear war Russian-manned bombers would also at tack the U.S.. and some of them would surely reach their targets. Russian submarines would attack coastal cities. They may not have Polaris-type rockets that can be fired underwater, but they could surface at night and fire similar missiles with nuclear war heads. "Suitcase" bombs hidden in U.S. cities by saboteurs and nuclear mines planted in harbors by Communist-controlled ships might be novel features of the earth's first (and possibly last) nuclear...
...recent opponent, President Kennedy told his press conference that he would give his opinion on the matter-"I do have an opinion"-only if Nixon asked for it. Off for a golf date with Nixon at Maryland's Burning Tree Country Club, Dwight Eisenhower took the same tack: "If he wants my advice, I'll be glad to give it to him." But the lack of an invitation did not inhibit New York's bouncy Governor Nelson Rockefeller, who clearly has his own eye on the 1964 Republican presidential nomination. If Nixon does decide...
Grave Ghost. The baron returns, some years later, to leave one last raffish memento. But with his death of a heart at tack, melodrama begins smothering the life of Author Denti di Pirajno's novel. At novel's end, Ippolita is not only the sole mistress, but also the greatest monster of the House of Raugeo...
...question remains: Since negotiations necessarily imply concessions, what does either side, deeply committed as they are, really have to negotiate about? On that point, Khrushchev last week set off on a new tack. The whole German question, he cried, revolved around ''our fight for the recognition of our grandeur...
...year. "To recognize the possibilities of nuclear war in the missile age," said he, "without our citizens knowing what they should do and where they should go if bombs begin to fall, would be a failure of responsibility." To guard against such a failure, the President asked Congress to tack a $207.6 million appropriation on to the $104.2 million civil defense budget already requested earlier this year...