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...each of the four cities where the drops fell. Last month, it was Kumbh-mela in Hardwar, at the headwaters of the Ganges where the water is clear and blue. Hindus believe that a bath in the Ganges at any time and at any point is enough to wipe away all the sins of a lifetime. A bath in the Ganges pool at Hardwar is considered even more effective. But a bath at Hardwar during the Kumbh-mela has the cleansing power of 100,000 ordinary baths...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Urn Festival | 5/1/1950 | See Source »

William E. Jenner, Republican from Indiana, who is devoid of influence among his colleagues and partisan-minded to the last brain cell. He recently implied that the H-bomb was part of a Democratic plot to wipe out civilization. Jenner's political vision is too myopic to win him classification even as a nationalist-he seems to think that the world consists only of the state of Indiana and that small patch of Chicago which holds up Colonel Bertie McCormick's Tribune Tower. So intense were Jenner's isolationist views when he returned from a worldwide senatorial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: THE SENATE'S MOST EXPENDABLE | 3/20/1950 | See Source »

...individuals who prate about slavery do not hesitate to join in this communistic movement to enslave the white people of America . . . You have an illustration now. Our Yiddish Solicitor General has taken it upon himself to go into the Supreme Court and misrepresent the American people. . . by . . . trying to wipe out all segregation . . . This is a part of the communistic program, laid down by Stalin approximately 30 years ago. Remember communism is Yiddish. I understand that every member of the Politburo around Stalin is either Yiddish or married to one, and that includes Stalin himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Garbage Disposal | 3/6/1950 | See Source »

...cutting the guts out of a great city. Hydrogen bombs, if they work as well as expected, will be many times more fearsome than uranium bombs. But there is an enormous difference between a bomb that will disrupt a city and kill its people and one that will wipe all life off the face of a continent or the earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Hydrogen Hysteria | 3/6/1950 | See Source »

Warsaw's Jews first thought that the Nazis' coming meant" no more than a switch of anti-Semitic rulers. The book describes their slow wakening to the realities of race murder as the Germans first wall them in, then wipe them out, block by block. At its opening the trapped Jews are living normal city lives; at its close they can take a crying baby from its mother's breast and kill it, for fear of the Germans who are searching for hidden survivors. The book ends, symbolically, with a group of ghetto men, liberated from their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Ashes of 0 Warsaw | 3/6/1950 | See Source »

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