Questions Raised
On Megaton Bomb
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MOSCOW O’P) — Accounts in
the official Sovet press raised a
question Wednesday as to exactly
what Soviet Premier Khrushchev
said about setting - off a 50-mega
ton bomb. The question: Is the
Soviet Union actually going to do
so or is it just a probability ?
The official press, including the
party newspaper Pravda, quoted
Khrushchev as telling the 22nd
Soviet party congress Tuesday:
In conclusion of current nuclear
tests we shall probably explode a
hydrogen bomb equivalent to 50
million tons of TNT.”
In a later paragraph, as quoted
by Pravda, Khrushchev seemed to
drop the qualification.
At least four Western reporters
who listened to his speech did not
hear the “probably”; two said
they did.
The speech was translated si
multaneously into 29 languages,
and some of the correspondents
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listened to translations conveyed
by earphones, some to the origi
nal Russia. One who understands
Russian well and listened to the
Russian version said he did not
hear the qualification.
The statement was not part of
Khrushchev’s prepared text, and
was not published here until late
Tuesday night, presumably after
Soviet editors received guidance.
According to Pravda this was
the way Khrushchev said it:
“These, tests will soon be complet
ed by us—evidently by the end of
October.
“In conclusion, we shall prob
ably explode a hydrogen bomb
equivalent to 50 million tons of
TNT.
“We have said that we have a
bomb equal to 100 million tons of
TNT. And this is true.
“But we shall not explode such
a bomb . . . But in exploding a
bomb equal to 50 million tons of
TNT, we are thereby also testing
a device for the explosion of the
bomb equal to 100 million tons of
TNT.” The official Soviet news
agency Tass gave a slightly dif
ferent version.
Its summary included this para
graph: “Khrushchev said the
tests would probably end with the
explosion of a hydrogen bomb
with a yield equivalent to 50 mil
lion tons of TNT. . . By touching
off a 50-megaton bomb we shall
test the device for triggering a
100-megaton bomb.”
THE BATTALION
Thursday, October 19, 1961
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By RON TREAT
Battalion Staff Writer
Carl (Doc) Birdwell, manager of
the Exchange Store, was featured
in the August issue of the College
Stoi’e Journal, a national trade
magazine for college and univer
sity stores throughout the United
States.
Serving as Exchange Store man
ager for the past 15 years, “Doc”
has made many friends and an
swered many requests from his
customers—some of which are very
peculiar.
One of these requests, he re
cant'd, came in the fall of 1950
when the Cadet Colonel of the
Corps asked him if he could get
4,500 pair of white parade gloves
which had been adopted as part
of the uniform the night before.
The corps commander told “Doc”
he wanted the gloves for the pa
rade in Austin for the Thanksgiv
ing Day game which was about a
week away.
“Doc,” remembering a dealer in
New York, called the man and
arranged to get the gloves in time
for the game. The last of the
shipment came in on Thursday
morning but a supply officer was
waiting, ready to take them to
Austin. So the Corps was able to
make the parade in white gloves
that year, thanks to “Doc” Bird-
well.
An amiable person, “Doc” is al
ways willing to sit back and talk
with visitors and those people
bringing strange requests. This
is, of course, in addition to his
regular duties of checking invoices
and all other things necessary to
running a college store.
In his many years of experi
ence, Bijrdwell- has found that stu
dent customers usually are honest.
If they don’t have enough money
for a package of cigarettes, for
example, they are asked to “drop
by tomorrow” with the money.
Very little has been lost and many
a friend has been gained. On one
occasion a boy, who had at one
time stolen a fountain pen from
the store, wrote “Doc” after grad
uation and apologized with a $10
bill.
Since 1949, the Exchange Store
has contributed over $260,000 from
its profits for student welfare and
recreation, band trips and uni
forms, student activities and a
host of other services.
The man who is pax^tly respon
sible for this is “Doc” Bii-dwell,
who thinks his employees and col
lege student customers are “the
finest people in the world.”
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