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Meanwhile, CBS technicians have been busy for weeks setting up apparatus for history's first telecast from Hanover, N.H. A special microwave circuit is needed to transmit the voice and picture from "way back in the hills," Bailey said...
...favorite beef bacon. But his doctors restricted him to a rigid 1,600-calorie-a-day diet to keep his weight down. During the day two hospital orderlies lifted Ike to a new hospital bed that can be raised and lowered from the floor by an electric motor. The apparatus will make it easier for the President to get in and out of bed when he is allowed to walk. Lieut. Knox read to him from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sir Nigel, one of Ike's favorite books. Mamie Eisenhower brought one message, from Soviet Marshal Georgy...
...homespun. The script, taken from The Gabriel Horn, a novel by Felix Holt, was put together by A. B. Guthrie Jr., who has published, in The Big Sky and The Way West, two excellent books on the winning of the West. By his skillful doing, the wheezy conventional apparatus of the Hollywood western-all the bang-bang and fistic shindy-is merged in the green world of quiet woods and early custom, like a shiny, store-bought backwoods still that has been tenderly overgrown by young birch and honeysuckle...
...using a razor blade and pieces of bottle glass as tools. Although he had gone to school only as far as the third grade, he now absorbed all that prison libraries could teach him about chemistry, biology, ornithology. Displaying heroic patience, he carried out thousands of experiments with homemade apparatus, found remedies for major bird diseases that had baffled pathologists. His 500-page Digest of the Diseases of Birds, published in 1943, is still widely used...
...Ecuadorian capitals. By the following afternoon, the inspectors were scanning the border regions from the air. They reported no evidence of an unusual military buildup. But even if it was just another false alarm, many Latin Americans were happy to know that the Hemisphere's fire-fighting apparatus is in such good working order...