International: Fate Closing In

Last week's atomic conversation: ¶ Alamogordo, N. Mex. was abuzz with the news that red Hereford cows had turned white following the first atomic explosion nearby. At Carrizozo, a black cat had turned half white. At Bingham. a rancher blamed the atom for grey streaks in his beard.

¶ Said the Rev. Francis J. Connell, a professor at the Catholic University of Washington, D.C.: "The use of the atomic bomb was simply murder." ¶ The Aga Khan, spiritual leader of tens of millions of Moslems, declared in Calcutta that he favored the creation of...

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