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More than anything else, the Minnesota primary showed the complete political mastery of Harold Stassen in his own home state. The big test will come next fall, when he plans to throw his active support to some 30 borderline congressional elections in an attempt to win Republican control of Congress...
Naval ROTC equipment, including guns, a rifle range, and submarine-attack teaching device, is being moved into two small buildings behind the Biological Laboratories, the Radio Research Laboratory and the Test Laboratory. Both of these have been used in special war work...
Nelson's Hat. The Thing had grown a little less awful as a result of Bikini; its apparently infinite power was finite after all. Le Canard Enchaîné ran a cartoon of a fashionable woman refusing a rendezvous the day before the test: "I really can't tomorrow. I have the end of the world. How about the day after?" Cried Communist Humanité: "The bomb lost some of its prestige. . . . They will no longer be able to play so easily with the nerves and imaginations of people. . . ." Said a disappointed London clerk: "I rather imagined...
Perhaps the best indication that the bomb had lost nothing of its political force came from Russia. Wrote Pravda: "In New York one may buy atomic ties, in restaurants they serve atomic cocktails, and on variety stages there are atomic blondes. . . . Against such a background . . . the results of the tests were more modest than . . . expected. [But the test confirmed] that the atomic bomb possesses enormous destructive power." Pravda stuck to its story that the U.S. was plotting atomic war: "[The test] basically undermined faith in the seriousness of U.S. talks of atomic disarmament...
Howard Hughes had one consolation: he had predicted it. After test-taxiing the XF11, a fast, twin-fuselaged, Lightning-like photo reconnaissance plane he designed and built for the Army, the manufacturer-sportsman commented: "I wouldn't worry about those rudders if I were sure an engine wouldn't conk out. If that happened, I don't think I could keep the plane in the air." Two days later he took off on the maiden test flight; within an hour an engine conked out. The plane crashed, sheared the roof off one house, ricocheted a block further...