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...detect clandestine nuclear tests. One tempting possibility for a nation that has signed a test ban but intends to cheat is to shoot a test device deep into space and observe the results by means of instruments carried on a nearby spacecraft. Since a nuclear explosion in a vacuum gives little visible light, it might well go unnoticed by observers on earth...
...atmosphere can spot them 200 million miles away, and the satellite sentries launched last week carry twelve cylindrical X-ray detectors poking out in all directions. Inside the satellites' skins are instruments that will watch for the neutrons and gamma rays that also come from explosions in vacuum...
...vacuum of moral leadership, Tocsin felt obliged to act. At the Tocsin membership meeting on Tuesday night, radical ideas were popped from all corners of the room. One member, however, injected a sobering note. "This discussion sounds like Tocsin versus the United States," he said. "And form some of the suggestions, you'd think our forces were about equal...
...book, The One Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding (TIME, Nov. 9, 1962), Gover locked up a vacuum-packed college sophomore with a pretty Negro prostitute for the weekend, and wound up proving not only that the girl was far nicer than the boy but that Gover is a comic writer of some talent. In his second book, Gover explores what he obviously feels is yet another forbidden daydream of the American male: the rape-murder of a beautiful young woman...
...first book was a monumental failure, and of it Yevtushenko writes: "Who could care about my pretty rhymes and striking images if they were nothing but curlicues decorating a vacuum?" So he turned outward, and began to become aware of "the beautiful ... world of real people." At the same time, the young Yevtushenko was deeply imbued with "the romantic ideals of the workers and soldiers who stormed the Winter Palace in 1917," and looked upon the world "with a revolutionary's scornful gaze...