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...thousands of women who spend millions of dollars each year hopefully trying to regain the facial appearance of their more youthful days." For $1,000 they could have a two-week stay at the Budkon Center in Westport, Conn., where a mild burning with buffered carbolic acid would wipe away sagging skin, wrinkles, freckles, acne scars, and the troubled look of middle age-all under the supervision of a former professor of dermatology...
...face reality: we are living in an atomic age, and we have created an instrument that can destroy us all, the innocent along with the guilty. Every reputable scientist knows, and many have certainly stated, that a nuclear war would wipe out millions of human lives and would destroy our civilization...
...million tons of TNT), made to fit rockets "similar to those used by Major Y. A. Gagarin and Major G. S. Titov for their unrivaled cosmic flights." In case somebody missed the point, Russia's army newspaper Red Star explained that nuclear weapons of such power could wipe out anyone anywhere: "No super-deep shelter can save them from an all-shattering blow from this weapon...
...Russian to be totally belligerent in mood-and irrational in manner. Khrushchev, said McCloy, was "absolutely serious" about extracting what he called the "rotten tooth" of Berlin. To Italy's Premier Amintore Fanfani, who called on him last week, Khrushchev warned of a nuclear war that would wipe out Italy and Britain (where the U.S. has missile bases) if the West attempted to preserve its access to Berlin by force. But he also announced blandly that war over Berlin was unlikely, noted that negotiations were "opportune and possible." In a turgid, 15-page answer to the July...
Some of Khrushchev's recent thunder took the form of an astonishing remark to Britain's ambassador in Moscow, Sir Frank Roberts: he boasted that he had all Western Europe at his mercy. Only six hydrogen bombs would be needed to wipe out Britain, said Khrushchev, and nine more would take care of France as well...