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Faubus' voice, magnified by a sound truck, filled the tiny square, ripped through the still, oppressive heat and bellowed out over the whole town. Pausing only to drink from a red paper cup or wipe his sweating face with a handkerchief, Faubus appealed to his listeners as "my kind of folk." "I've been an ordinary working person all my life," he said. "I'm a hillbilly. I never was out of the shadow of the green Ozark Mountains until I was well past a man." He recounted the gifts of progress that he had brought...
...from a policy of finite deterent to one of massive counter-force, Mr. Hughes emphasized, has come only recently. In effect the United States will now build nuclear power capable, of in air force terminology, of "winning" a thermonuclear war. American force will not only be strong enough to wipe out all Soviet missle basis in a fist strike. But, even after U.S. first-line bases have been attacked, U.S. power will be capable of destroying cities in a second major blow. In the past, Hughes stressed, American strategy had relied on a minimum force, sufficient to deter Russian attacks...
...Eisenhower had to have a heart attack to throw the country into a recession, but Kennedy just has to open his mouth to wipe out $70 billion in values of stocks in two months...
...both Africa and Middle America, WHO doctors are trying to wipe out tiny gnats that leave the victims of their bites infested with worms that attack the eyes, causing "river blindness." In some villages, all adults are blind. The doctors are using drugs to kill the worms, and insecticides in the rivers (where the flies' eggs hatch) to break the blindness cycle...
...well as with guns. In Malaya, the Communist guerrillas had no contiguous border with a Red country and. being mostly Chinese, they were distinct from the Malays, who disliked them on principle. Even so, it took twelve years and 350,000 soldiers, police, and militia for Malaya to wipe out 12,000 isolated Communist guerrillas...