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...prevent a continuation of this utterly pointless loss of lives . . . The question is: At the present time, within the continental limits of the U.S., in the absence of any national emergency, can there be any reason that can justify the flight of Air Force transports under weather conditions that threaten disaster to their passengers, when a few hours' delay in flying time would provide safety...
...When a member of the hierarchy condemns a book or play or movie and calls on all Catholics to boycott the condemned item, the collective power of Catholicism is being used to threaten a publisher or producer or theater owner with economic ruin unless he withdraws from the market something a bishop dislikes ... In a smaller way, Catholic groups and organizations badger newspaper and magazine editors. Any mention of anything Catholic must be favorable or the heat...
...Observations will also be made at Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, outside "the path of totality." If the instruments prove sensitive enough even in a partial eclipse, the Air Force may face a vast new job of map making. And since guidance systems for intercontinental rockets already threaten to become more accurate than present charts of large sections of the world, new maps are fast becoming a necessity...
...tomorrow's 1:30 p.m. track meet against Holy Cross with its unbeaten record still intact--in fact, there is doubt that the visitors will be able to score more than 25 or 30 points. The freshmen should experience a little more trouble from Huntington, but not enough to threaten their winning streak...
...Bomb, the Cold War with the resulting fear of Russia, the Soviet discovery of atomic energy in 1949, and the espionage trials in the U.S. have produced fear after fear, according to Biddle, and from this has come the laws, acts, ideas that threaten our freedom...