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...time when restraint and sacrifice are being asked of every citizen, the American people will find it hard, as I do. to accept a situation in which a tiny handful of Steel executives whose pursuit of private power and profit exceeds their sense of public responsibility can show such utter contempt for the interest of 185 million Americans...
Hollow Boast. Sitting nervously among the big nuclear powers were the eight "middlemen" of the U.N. disarmament meeting, the delegates of Brazil, Burma, Ethiopia, India, Mexico, Nigeria, Sweden and Egypt. Many were utter novices in the murky technicalities of the cold war, but, being wooed by both East and West, they soon rallied under the leadership of India's V. K. Krishna ("The Unspeakable") Menon. Brazil's Foreign Minister Francisco San Thiago Dantas, for example, criticized the Soviet Union for last fall's tests, went right ahead to urge the U.S. to cancel its own spring series...
...your article on Poland [Feb. 23] you stated that that country's corn yield reached 449 bu. per acre in 1961. Such an astronomical figure must surely have made many a Midwestern farmer wince in utter astonishment...
...except Negroes, may become members of the priesthood. Joseph Smith, the church's founder and first prophet, wrote in his Book of Abraham that Negroes are a cursed race, the descendants of Noah's son Ham, and Ham's son Canaan. They are not regarded as utter pariahs, however, and the Mormon Church grants them all of its blessings-including ultimate salvation-except the priesthood...
...panelist George B. Kistiakowsky, professor of Chemistry, agreed that it is "complete and utter nonsense" to believe "that if you build a falout shelter you will be saved in case of nuclear attack." He stressed, however, that a shelter will "increase somewhat" the chance of survival...