Word: viewings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Britain that was holding the day back. "Any suggestion which I may put forward," said Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd in a self-effacing welcome to the 70 delegates assembled around his oblong table, "will have but one object in view, the prosperity, good government and unity of Nigeria...
...along with a whispering campaign that the President really isn't in good health, or that he isn't up to the job or is relaxing and doesn't care to fulfill his responsibilities. The persistently adverse propaganda about the President is hard to understand in view of the presence of thousands of alert reporters in Washington who can dispel such misinformation...
...fellow psychiatrists but by big-name laymen and critics, e.g., Philosopher Bertrand Russell, Los Angeles Methodist Bishop Gerald Kennedy, Critic V. S. Pritchett, Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr ("fascinating and profound"). Actually, plausible though it sounds, Sargant's thesis is based on shaky premises. He accepts uncritically the Pavlovian view that the brain and nervous system are something "which man shares with the dog and other animals." In effect, the human brain, probably because of its greatly enlarged cerebrum and vastly multiplied nerve junctions, is different in quality as well as quantity from that of even the higher apes...
...this flow of information is based the official AEC position, recently expressed by Scientist-Commissioner Willard F. Libby. In general. Chemist Libby's view is calm. As a scientist, he knows that fission products from megaton* explosions rise into the stratosphere and circulate round the earth for years. Most threatening of them is strontium 90, whose long half-life (28 years) keeps it potent during its stratospheric circling, and whose habit of lodging for keeps in human bone makes it a probable cause of leukemia and bone cancer...
From the military point of view, clean megaton bombs have two strikes against them: 1) they are built at very high cost in explosive yield, presumably because they cannot use cheap and plentiful uranium 238; and 2) they may be good for special military uses, such as obliterating a city whose site must be occupied soon, but they lack the full punch of "dirty" megaton bombs. No one could be sure that a U.S. enemy, for instance, would use a clean bomb to obliterate Washington when the fallout of a dirty one might kill, in addition, most of the inhabitants...