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...Within a month there will be a four power conference of heads of Government. Whether or not we shall then reach the initial decisions that will start dismantling the terrible apparatus of fear and mistrust and weapons erected since the end of World War II, I do not know...
Another snapped: it is "ridiculous"' to suggest that Beria could deceive the whole Soviet government and party, which has, "just as our party in Yugoslavia, an extremely thorough checkup apparatus...
...scene and is waiting for an instant before scanning it again. The phototubes are "blind" during this period, so the Du Mont engineers provide stroboscopic lights that flash brightly 60 times per second. To the slow-acting human eye they seem steadily luminous, but as far as the TV apparatus is concerned, they are not shining at all. All it can see is a dark room scanned by a flying spot...
...suicide score has fallen since the war, but the volcano may become famed as the first whose eruptions can be predicted scientifically. Five years ago. Assistant Professor Tsuneji Rikitake of Tokyo University's Earthquake Research Institute started prowling around the warm rocks on its top crater, carrying apparatus to measure earth magnetism. Whenever he approached the hot crater, the strength of the magnetic field de creased appreciably...
Died. Louis C. Breguet, 75, French airplane manufacturer who in 1908, less than five years after the Wright Brothers' flight at Kitty Hawk, constructed and ascended in a crude apparatus that he called a gyroplane, a forerunner of the helicopter; of a heart attack; in Paris. A topflight builder of World War I military aircraft, Breguet was once scoffed at for predicting that airplanes would fly at 650 m.p.h...