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This week, as the President met with the National Security Council to ponder his final decision, the Pentagon presented an exhaustive study of Russia's recent test series. It confirms earlier reports that the Russians have made alarming nuclear advances that threaten U.S. security-and illustrates why the President's advisers, once divided on the issue of renewed testing, are now unanimous in urging the tests...
...Soviet concentration in the one-and two-megaton range was probably designed to develop better warheads for the plentiful Russian intermediate range missiles that now threaten Western Europe. Higher yield devices, including the 25-megaton warhead, could be carried by Russia's "second generation" ICBM, its first storable (but still liquid) fuel rocket, which is more economical and will become operational in quantity this year...
...advertisement charged that HUAC's activities "threaten democracy" by "introducing the alien concept of a political test into our public life." The Committee also impedes integration "by equating the struggle for civil rights with subversion" and encourages "the political extremists among us who stand for antidemocratic means and ends," the advertisement said...
...Generales' view was quickly challenged by Dr. Robert Voas, a psychologist who works with the astronauts. Said he: "There's no evidence that he's building up any frustrations or annoyances. If you really wanted to make John Glenn anxious, you'd have to threaten him with the possibility of a substitution of astronauts." Said Project Mercury's Dr. Douglas: "I'm as close to this man as I am to my brother. And I couldn't let my brother fly if I thought he would be in danger. If I detected anything...
...last night, the YDCHR passed a resolution of support for the sit-ins but urged that no picketing be included, nor placards carried. A spokesman for the organization noted that it was hoped that the demonstrations would be as peaceful and orderly as possible. Picketing, he said, could conceivably threaten such orderliness...