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...Maurice Macmillan is a director of the family publishing concern, has been an M.P. since 1955, and for all his trench ant knocks at his father's government, is a close friend and frequent teatime companion of the Prime Minister...
...white mustache, he rarely answers questions except with a speech, and anything will set him off. "I have looked at many American faces," he improvised for an interviewer last week. "I've seen them as flak burst around them 9,000 ft. over Japan and in a slit trench on Okinawa watching the night sky to see where the next bomb would fall. I have seen American faces in a Congregational Church in New Hampshire and in a miners' union hall in Duluth on a night when the wind off the lake blew the snow in killingly...
...speakers eventually returned to musical fare, and the cold leftovers of the crowd drifted off down towards the Common and back into the Court House, their black cashmere coats and trench-coats up about their ears...
Charley O'Brien, the man in charge, is short and brush-haired, and holds his cigarette in a clenched fist. He had not bothered to take off his trench-coat. "Ward's a shoo-in," he stated, "because Kennedy's gonna win Massachusetts by 500,000 votes for sure." He spread out a Boston Globe on one of the six empty tables in the headquarters. "Look at that--the Herald, the Globe, and the Traveler have all gone back on their accusation that Ward's name is printed heavier on the ballot...
...made by expenditure on relatively invulnerable weapons systems and on greater mobility and fire power for our conventional forces. Bomb shelters, being an essentially static and inflexible strategic element, could probably in the course of time generate an offensive weapon that would nullify their value. For instance, trench warfare was rendered obsolete by the invention of noxious gases. The history of arms races indicates that such a development is most likely if the prospective counter-measure, in this case perhaps of a toxicological character, appears cheaper than the defensive objective, in this case, fallout shelters. An adequately massive shelter program...