ARMAMENTS: Better than Dynamite?

From Newport, Ark., a farmer wrote a letter to the nonexistent "Atomic Bomb Co." of Oak Ridge, Tenn.: "I have some stumps in my field that I should like to blow out. Have you got any atomic bombs the right size for the job? If you have let me know by return mail, and let me know how much they cost. I think I should like them better than dynamite."

In Paris, General Charles de Gaulle, more noted for courage than for prudence, declared that France was not worried about the Anglo-American monopoly...

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