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From New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller last week came one of the most strongly worded public arguments so far for the U.S. to continue with its underground nuclear testing, and to resume atmospheric tests, no matter what the Soviet Union does. Rockefeller predicted that Russia will complete its current series of tests, then "turn its face from the scene of the blast, with an air of virtue and innocence, and say to us: 'Now, shouldn't we all stop testing these awful weapons...
There seems to be a vast and avid audience for poetry of passion and protest. Through recitals in locked apartments, surreptitiously distributed copies of poems, or late-night sessions in public squares and parks, young Russians have organized an efficient underground distribution system for verse written, as one poet explains, "for our souls' sake"-as opposed to the Party-line literature that the late great Boris Pasternak described as being dumped on the populace "forcibly, like potatoes under Catherine the Great...
...Great Powers to be its King. William could stand Albania for only six months. Ten years later, Ahmed Bey Zogu, son of a tribal chief, successively became Prime Minister, President and then King. As King Zog, he lasted until 1939, when Mussolini invaded Albania. During the war, the Albanian underground fell under the control of the Communists led by an equally ruthless pair of partisans named Hoxha and Xoxe (pronounced Hoja and Jo-je). In 1949 Hoxha, a firm Stalinist, hanged Xoxe because he inclined toward Tito...
...anything. But the goings-on in a 150-room stone and adobe villa across the way from Barbara Button's $1.5 million place are causing talk. Some say that the place is a nest of Communists, some that it is a training center for an illegal Roman Catholic underground. The Red newspaper, Politica, charged that it was a "penetración Yanqui." And some of the inmates of Villa Chula Vista this week are not sure themselves what they have got into, or what manner of wild man is this dark, cadaverous Ivan Illich, who yells at them...
Inside the underground tunnel, workers are laying the key parts in place and testing them individually. Every large electronics firm has contributed parts for the mammoth accelerator, which has its own water-cooling system and will tax Cambridge power for 1000 kw/sec during experiments...