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...practice, an airplane pilot will probably listen through one ear and talk through the other. The whole apparatus will be tightly enclosed in his helmet. Outside noise will have a hard time working its way into this communication system, which is almost as private as if it were entirely inside the wearer's head...
...terrorized by the police, Western strategists rely most heavily on professional intelligence outfits-the U.S.'s CIA, Britain's Military Intelligence, France's Deuxième Bureau, etc. Last week West Germany covertly confirmed what had long been widely suspected: Bonn, too, has its own apparatus of anti-Communist spies. Büro Gehlen, as the Germans call it, is now to become an official arm of the West German government...
...made three copies of each of his records and deposited them at three different addresses. Later, when the Cold War came, U.S. intelligence officers found the Gehlen files invaluable. Gehlen was flown to Washington and returned to Germany with the secret understanding that he would rebuild his intelligence apparatus and set it to work for both the U.S. and Western Germany. Reportedly, his terms included that he never would have to operate against the "German interest," and he himself would be the judge of that interest...
...pneumograph. When he switched it on, Jimmy's breathing pattern showed up as two wildly irregular lines on the moving chart. Then Dr. Harrington fitted Jimmy into a chest respirator (which he is experimenting with as a substitute for the iron lung) and a positive-pressure breathing apparatus, both of which, working together, made Jimmy's breathing deeper and more regular...
...want to put behind us this terrible preoccupation with things destructive; we all want, as you remarked at the U.N., to "dismantle the terrible apparatus" of tension, mistrust and nuclear fear. But, Mr. President, don't feel that we so impatiently, so yearningly want these things that you need have any compulsion or temptation of any kind whatsoever to put your signature -at Geneva or afterward-to a commitment that could have any effect other than to strengthen the cause of freedom-of free peoples and free nations...