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...Sultan's fourth wife, will be crowned. Pounding the floor with his silver saber for emphasis, the Sultan got things going with a surprise statement attacking his own independence-minded government and supporting British imperialism: "Where are your warships, your planes and your armies to withstand and repel aggression from without? If the British were to go today, the Communists would be in tomorrow ... It would be 99 times worse than the Japanese occupation...
...Hiroshima, which may have weighed more than 10,000 Ibs. The Army's announcement last week that it will abandon its monstrous, 11-in. atomic cannon tells how much the bombs have shrunk. The new atomic shells will fit an 8-in. gun. Since they will have to withstand the shock of firing, they will be much like ordinary 8-in. shells. They will have an internal cavity about 22 in. long and about 5½ in. in diameter in the center. This is apparently big enough for the works of a modern atomic bomb, although the steel walls...
...world. Failure to achieve an orderly solution of the Negro problem would be-and this Thurgood Marshall feels deeply-much more than defeat for the Negro. It would be a failure at the very core of the American genius-its capacity for constructing forms strong and shrewd enough to withstand the tensions of change. From the nation's start, its three chief resources have been its fabulous mines of law, politics and social (including economic) organization. The abundance of material things -the bales of cotton, bushels of corn, ingots of steel-is a byproduct of these three primary riches...
Next day the Prime Minister arrived at the field training headquarters of the 3rd British Infantry Division. Eden, who won the Military Cross for gallantry in World War I, clambered in and out of armored vehicles, crawled into underground field defenses built to withstand the blast and radiation of atomic bombs dropped 500 yards away. "Pretty ancient aren't they, sir?" said a youthful sergeant when the Prime Minister inspected his living quarters. "They're awful," said Eden. "Accommodations must be improved...
...workers. Lording it over the industry is a burly, self-made man named Bill Hill, 52, King of the Bookies. Hill learned the business as a bookies' runner, set himself up in business while still a teenager. He went broke once, before he got enough capital to withstand the heavy losses on the days the bettors "beat the books." No mobster or furtive tout, Bill now has his own Hill House, a palatial office building in London's bustling Piccadilly Circus. As the 1955-56 professional football got under way he looked to another busy year of booking...