People, may 2, 1960

PEOPLE

How much atomic bomb power does the U.S. have? Too much, believes Major General John B. Medaris, recently retired chief of the Army's Ballistic Missile Agency. Medaris told an A.F.L.-C.I.O. World Affairs Manhattan meeting last week that "a prominent Senator" (who turned out to be Jack Kennedy) estimates that the U.S. already has an atomic stockpile equaling "ten tons of TNT for every man, woman and child on earth." World population: 2.8 billion.

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Off on another political hayride, Louisiana voters elected Guitarist-Composer James H. (You Are My Sunshine) Davis, 59, as...

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