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...Traumatic Wallop. Recent years have also seen a drastic deterioration of Communism's image: it no longer seems anywhere near as powerful, cunning and successful as it did in the late...
...Communist conquest of mainland China, Russia's achievement of a thermonuclear explosion only nine months after the U.S., Russian claims of rapid economic growth-all these added to the Communist image of vast and growing power. Then, in October 1957. Sputnik I struck the U.S. a traumatic psychological wallop. Alarmed voices warned that Russia was speedily wiping out the U.S.'s scientific and technological lead. The climax of the national inferiority complex came in 1960, when the U.S. public became convinced that a "missile gap" confronted the nation, and when John F. Kennedy ran for President insisting that...
...splashed just 125 ft. beyond and 165 ft. to the left of its target's dead center. Now in production, the Pershing, with a top range of 400 miles, will go into the field in Western Europe some time next year. Pershing's success adds a heavy wallop to the U.S.'s arsenal of tactical nuclear weapons. These weapons give the U.S. and its allies, especially in Western Europe, a vital potential for ground war beyond the brush-fire level and less than all-out thermonuclear holocaust. Among the Army's other tactical nuclear weapons...
...labs are rushing the development of battery-powered vacuum cleaners, refrigerators, vending machines, and even battery-heated clothing. And where nickel-cadmiums are not powerful enough to do the job, there is already a newer silver-cadmium rechargeable battery, which is even more expensive but packs a compact electrical wallop strong enough to drive portable industrial machinery...
...fathers have decreed, the record will blare each noontime from loudspeakers along Pomona's new nine-block downtown mall. At least 15 Pomona churches plan to use it during Holy Week and Easter services, and some clergymen are treating it like a new Gospel. "It has a tremendous wallop and it just wrings you out," says Dr. Edward Cole of the First Baptist Church. "The first time I heard it I had to get up from my chair twice and look the other way while I fought back tears. It really bugged...