Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gruesome thought: What would Michelangelo have done with the Sistine frescoes had A.E. been the mode under Sixtus...
...shocked over the murderous way that Iraq was taken over, but how could you bring yourself to print such pictures [Aug. 4] as those of the butchered victims? I really thought you were above such things...
Swim By Instrument. In the narrow Bering Straits between Alaska and Soviet Siberia, Nautilus kept well within U.S. waters, popped up its radar antenna only once for about 30 seconds to take a radar fix. Did the Russians detect them? Anderson thought not. Detouring along Alaska's northern coast to avoid clogged-up ice, Nautilus surfaced for the first time since Pearl Harbor to get a sure fix on a DEW-line radar station, then headed down again into the fantastic beneath-the-sea new world of mountains and deeps that is the nuclear submarine's true element...
Finding Hoffa uncooperative, the committee called up two Detroit laundrymen who had signed affidavits indicating that they thought at least part of the payoff went to Hoffa. But something had happened to make the witnesses wary. Obviously frightened, they shied away from their notarized affidavits, professed sudden doubts whether Hoffa really got any of the money after...
Saber & Specter. Obviously, any breath of outside air is, in China's present stage, like too much oxygen. Adult Russians have known nothing but a Communist society for the past 40 years; among educated Chinese, the memory of the atmosphere and another kind of thought is only nine years old. On such people, Mao has to cinch the Marxist straitjacket tighter. He is less free to adopt the Russians' confident approach that "peaceful competition" will lead to ultimate Communist triumph. In the classic fashion of young dictatorships, Red China must rely on "the threat from abroad...