Word: threatenings
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...Gallup Poll finds that Eisenhower and Kennedy are both so well liked that it would threaten the American people to have to choose between them in '64. "The loser's feelings would get hurt, and that's not nice," an Iowan couple is quoted as saying. Reading the results of the poll, Eisenhower promises not to run again for the presidency. "I can't stand to see a grown public cry," he explains. The public and Kennedy calls Eisenhower "a great President, to whom I bear a striking resemblance." Henry Luce cables agreement, and Kennedy withdraws his law suit. "Henry...
...balance-of-payments troubles are partly a condition of the cold war. The U.S. spends some $5 billion a year on foreign aid and for the support of its own and allied armies overseas. To overcome a payments gap so large as to threaten international confidence in the value of the dollar, U.S. traders must sell far more than they buy abroad...
...forces are so deployed and protected that a sneak attack could not effectively disarm us. The destructive power which the United States could bring to bear even after a Soviet surprise attack would be as great as-perhaps greater than-the total undamaged force which the enemy can threaten to launch against the United States in a first strike. In short, we have a second-strike capability which is at least as extensive as what the Soviets can deliver by striking first...
...LOCAL FALLOUT. This is mostly the coarse, comparatively heavy material blasted out of the bomb crater. Although extremely dangerous, it spreads only a few hundred miles from the explosion. It does not get into the long-term circulation of the atmosphere, and it does not threaten the earth as a whole...
...Lions Threaten...