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...speed records for seaplanes in a 1924 meet), later commander of naval forces in the Far East (1951-52), who served with the Joint Chiefs of Staff Evaluation Group for the 1946 Bikini tests, in 1949 declared that strategic atomic bombing was little more than "random mass slaughter," militarily unsound and morally questionable; after long illness; in Bethesda...
...given sex, largely in the form of a wholly fictional love-affair between Moses and a princess of Egypt. Even if such an interpolation into the Biblical story were entirely in good taste-which is open to question-the fact remains that it is dramatically unsound. While Charlton Heston, who plays Moses, and Anne Baxter, the princess, unquestionably make a handsome couple, their embraces shed no light on the problem of how Moses, portrayed as on the threshold of the Egyptian throne, becomes a prophet and the deliverer of an enslaved race. Like the spectacle, the romance only obscures...
...Navy Pier, four experts led by Vaccinventor Jonas Salk pronounced a favorable verdict. One year and 40 million inoculations after the initial flurry of accidents, controversy and fumbling, the vaccine has been vindicated. Said Dr. Salk in an unwontedly cautious, indirect statement: "Inferences that the theoretical considerations were unsound or were not applicable . . . seem not to have been supported by time...
...putting a soil bank proposal on the same bill with countless unsound economic policies, Benson charged that the Democrats "laid a trap for Eisenhower." A veto meant he was voting against his own plan, but, on the other hand, he could not support the bill without repudiating all his previous policies. "This type of political dealing has been typicial of the Democrats attitude toward the farm problem," he said...
...Should he sign the farm bill? Or should he veto it? Many politicians-some Republicans and most Democrats-said again and again that a veto might be ruinous to the G.O.P. cause. But a signature would mean accepting a set of laws that Eisenhower has consistently opposed as economically unsound and. in the long run, bad for the farmers...